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CTV News
27-05-2025
- Business
- CTV News
Trump administration is set to cancel federal contracts with Harvard worth some US$100 million
Harvard University is seen in 2020 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (via CNN Newsource) The Trump administration is poised to direct federal agencies to cancel their contracts – totalling about US$100 million – with Harvard University, two senior Trump administration officials told CNN, the latest barb against the school as it refuses to bend to the White House's weekslong barrage of policy demands rooted in political ideology. The directive will be delivered Tuesday in a letter and also will order government agencies to look for new vendors to which they can redirect the federal funds, the officials said. The General Services Administration 'will send a letter to federal agencies today asking them to identify any contracts with Harvard, and whether they can be canceled or redirected elsewhere,' one senior Trump administration official told CNN. The New York Times first reported on the planned cuts. The nation's oldest and wealthiest university sued the Trump administration last month over its freeze of $2.2 billion in federal grants and contracts. The government since then has halted another $450 million to Harvard and canceled its ability to enroll foreign students, a move that's subject to a status conference Tuesday after a federal judge put it on hold. Trump further has threatened to cut off $3 billion more in Harvard's federal grant funding and pull its tax-exempt status. This is a developing story and will be updated. By Alayna Treene, CNN
CNN
17-03-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Reporter asks Trump if he defied judge's court order
Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador, with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up removals despite a court ruling halting the move. CNN's Alayna Treene reports on how President Trump is defending the deportations.
CNN
17-03-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Reporter asks Trump if he defied judge's court order
Hundreds of mostly Venezuelan alleged gang members were deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador, with the Trump administration invoking wartime powers to speed up removals despite a court ruling halting the move. CNN's Alayna Treene reports on how President Trump is defending the deportations.
Yahoo
27-01-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Set to Sign Order on One of His Dumbest Military Ideas
Forget about the price of eggs—Trump still wants to build the United States its own 'iron dome.' The president is set to sign an executive order that would begin the production of a 'next generation' missile defense shield that would envelop the entire country. 'The order calls for an 'Iron Dome' for an America, borrowing the name of the short-range Israeli missile defense system that for years has been used to intercept launches from Gaza. The U.S. provided billions of dollars in funding to Iron Dome, and the US Army has its own system,' White House reporter Alayna Treene wrote on X. The Israeli Iron Dome was a collaboration between Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and U.S. weapons manufacturer Raytheon that came online in 2011. It is not a literal iron dome but a system of 'interceptor missiles' that can shoot down enemy missiles before they reach their targets Even still, it's hard to imagine a system that could do the same for the entirety of the continental U.S., as Trump has suggested multiple times before today. 'We will build a great iron dome over our country, a dome like has never seen before, a state-of-the-art missile defense shield that will be entirely built in America,' Trump said at a Wisconsin campaign rally last summer. 'We are going to build the greatest dome of them all. You see what happened in Israel, they shot 3000 missiles and they knocked down almost all of them … we are entitled to that also, you know and it was our idea, by the way.' The iron dome was also the eighth point of the first part of his campaign platform, as the president promised to 'BUILD A GREAT IRON DOME MISSILE DEFENSE SHIELD OVER OUR ENTIRE COUNTRY—ALL MADE IN AMERICA.' National security analyst Joseph Cirincione has been highly skeptical since the beginning of Trump's iron dome fantasy. '[The] Iron Dome is designed to intercept short-range rockets, not intercontinental ballistic missiles. Each Iron Dome system can defend an area of roughly 150 square miles,' Cirincione wrote for the Defense One website last summer. 'We would need to deploy more than 24,700 Iron Dome batteries to defend the 3.7 million square miles of the continental United States. At $100 million per battery, that would be approximately $2,470,000,000,000.' Not only would this iron dome be a waste of time and effort, it would also cost three times more than America's entire military budget for 2025.
