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CNN
27-05-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Trump accuses Harvard of ‘judge shopping' and threatens to send $3 billion in federal grants to trade schools
Donald Trump Education policy Student lifeFacebookTweetLink Follow President Donald Trump on Monday again trained his ire on Harvard University, accusing the school of 'judge shopping' during its legal battle with the administration and threatening to cut off $3 billion in federal grant funding over the university's handling of anti-Israel protests. 'I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,' Trump wrote on social media. 'What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!' Trump's newest threats come as Harvard begins its spring commencement week in the shadow of a months-long feud between the Ivy League school and the Trump administration over antisemitism, federal funding and the First Amendment. In its latest move, the Trump administration banned Harvard University's ability to enroll international students – a decision swiftly halted by a federal judge hours after the nation's oldest and wealthiest university filed suit. The president has also threatened to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status. Now, the university's future ability to enroll international students – which make up about 27% of the student body – will depend on how the case plays out in court, with the litigation adding to the piling docket of legal battles for the administration. A hearing in the case is expected to take place Tuesday. Harvard also sued Trump last month over the administration's freezing of $2.2 billion in federal funding after the university wouldn't agree to policy changes demanded by the White House. That case, along with the lawsuit over international students, has been assigned to US District Court Judge Allison Dale Burroughs. This isn't Burroughs' first high-profile case involving Harvard University. As a federal judge in 2019, she upheld the Ivy League's admissions process in an affirmative action case – a decision the US Supreme Court later overturned. She ruled that while Harvard's admissions process was 'not perfect,' she would not 'dismantle a very fine admissions program that passes constitutional muster, solely because it could do better.' As a federal district judge, she's also put guardrails on the Trump administration before in cases related to his 2017 travel ban targeting predominantly Muslim countries, international students during the coronavirus pandemic, and the Department of Energy's recent cuts to federal research funding. In his Monday post, Trump also took aim at the bipartisan practice of 'judge shopping,' where plaintiffs file cases outside their obvious court of jurisdiction in an effort to be assigned a judge who may have a more favorable review of the litigation compared to a random assignment. Members of both parties have used the practice to further their policy goals. 'The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) - But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!' Trump wrote Monday. CNN has reached out to Harvard for comment. But Harvard, a Massachusetts-based school, would be expected to bring any lawsuits in Boston's federal court. Still, the district has no Trump appointees, and the federal appellate court overseeing New England is perceived as a tough venue for the president's more hardline, politically sensitive cases. This week, Trump also sent shockwaves through campus when he demanded the 'names and countries' of the thousands of international students at Harvard University. 'We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country. Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!' Trump said on social media. Harvard already shares a list, as of October 2024, of the countries where its thousands of foreign students are from, with the most students coming from China, followed by Canada, India, South Korea and the United Kingdom. Harvard and the Trump administration are scheduled to meet in court on Thursday and argue their cases to Burroughs, who will decide whether to extend her decision to block the government's actions by issuing a preliminary injunction. At the same time as the scheduled hearing, nearly 9,000 degree candidates are due to be celebrating commencement on Harvard's campus, just 6 miles from the federal courthouse.
Yahoo
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Threatens Harvard in Fiery Memorial Day Tirade
The president kicked off Memorial Day in true Trump fashion by remembering those who have defied him, launching new threats at Harvard and reminding them of their precarious position. President Donald Trump posted a series of Truth Social rants Monday morning, several of which attacked Harvard University for refusing the administration's demands to release a list of its international students' information, including any misconduct and offenses. 'We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country,' Trump wrote. 'Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!' he said. 'The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) - But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!' He also threatened to withhold $3 billion more of federal grant money from the institution, in addition to the $2.2 billion in federal funding it has already frozen. 'I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!' he wrote. This tirade follows the Trump administration's recent claims that Harvard has not been transparent about the number of international students it admits into the university. On Thursday, it launched a failed attempt to block the school's ability to admit international students, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcing that it would be revoking the university's Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification. 'This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,' said Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem. 'It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments.' 'Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused… Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country,' she added. Yet Harvard claims that it complied with Noem's April 16 'records request' despite the 'unprecedented nature' of the demand, saying that Harvard's International Office provided the DHS with information on 'each student visa holder' across its 13 schools. But after DHS called their response 'insufficient,' Harvard stated that they were not given any explanation on which regulation they failed to comply with, adding that they even responded to a follow-up request from the DHS. 'The government's termination of Harvard's SEVP certification is the culmination of its unprecedented and retaliatory attack on academic freedom at Harvard,' the university said in their complaint. But the move to revoke the school's SEVP certification was swiftly blocked by California federal judge Jeffrey White, who issued the school a temporary restraining order against the administration. This prevented Harvard from being forced to terminate the visas of international students days before graduation. The university said that around 7,000 visa holders, roughly a quarter of its student population, will be affected by the removal of SEVP, calling it 'the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and the 'ideology' of its faculty and students.' 'With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard's student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission,' the university wrote in their complaint. 'Without its international students, Harvard is not Harvard,' it stated, calling the move 'unlawful. In her letter Thursday, Noem gave Harvard a new list of demands in order for it to regain its SEVP certification, including 'any and all audio or video footage, in the possession of Harvard University, of any protest activity involving a nonimmigrant on a Harvard University campus in the last five years.'
CTV News
26-05-2025
- Politics
- CTV News
Trump vows to ‘win' against Harvard, threatens funding
Washington, United States — U.S. President Donald Trump vowed Monday to prevail in his clash with Harvard and again threatened to take away billions in funding from one of the world's top universities. 'I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,' Trump said, without giving details, in one of a flurry of texts on Monday, the Memorial Day holiday in the U.S. He also brought up the issue of removing foreign students from Harvard -- a key source of enrollment and tuition money for the oldest university in the U.S. -- saying he is waiting for Harvard to provide a list of these students. Trump said he wants this list 'so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.' He added: 'But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!' The Trump administration moved last week to block Harvard from enrolling foreign students, but on Friday a judge suspended the order pending a hearing this week. Trump is furious at Harvard -- which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners -- for rejecting Washington's oversight on admissions and hiring, amid his claims the school is a hotbed of anti-Semitism and 'woke' liberal ideology. Trump is attacking U.S. universities and other sources of what he sees as left-leaning power in the country like the media as he tries to exert tight, unprecedented presidential control over life in America. In his fight with Harvard, Trump has threatened to put US$9 billion of government funding under review, then went on to freeze a first tranche of $2.2 billion of grants and $60 million of official contracts. The administration has also targeted a Harvard Medical School researcher for deportation.
Khaleej Times
26-05-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
Harvard row: Trump vows to 'win', threatens to take away funding
President Donald Trump vowed Monday to prevail in his clash with Harvard and aga i n threatened to take away billions in funding from one of the world's top universities. "I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land," Trump said, without giving details, in one of a flurry of texts on Monday, the Memorial Day holiday in the US. He also brought up the issue of removing foreign students from Harvard -- a key source of enrollment and tuition money for the oldest university in the US -- saying he is waiting for Harvard to provide a list of these students. Trump said he wants this list "so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country." He added: "But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!" The Trump administration moved last week to block Harvard from enrolling foreign students, but on Friday a judge suspended the order pending a hearing this week. Trump is furious at Harvard -- which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners -- for rejecting Washington's oversight on admissions and hiring, amid his claims the school is a hotbed of anti-Semitism and "woke" liberal ideology. Trump is attacking US universities and other sources of what he sees as left-leaning power in the country like the media as he tries to exert tight, unprecedented presidential control over life in America. In his fight with Harvard, Trump has threatened to put $9 billion of government funding under review, then went on to freeze a first tranche of $2.2 billion of grants and $60 million of official contracts. The administration has also targeted a Harvard Medical School researcher for deportation.
CNA
26-05-2025
- Politics
- CNA
Trump vows to 'win' against Harvard, threatens funding
WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump vowed on Monday (May 26) to prevail in his clash with Harvard and again threatened to take away billions in funding from one of the world's top universities. "I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land," Trump said, without giving details, in one of a flurry of texts on Monday, the Memorial Day holiday in the US. He also brought up the issue of removing foreign students from Harvard - a key source of enrollment and tuition money for the oldest university in the US - saying he is waiting for Harvard to provide a list of these students. Trump said he wants this list "so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country". He added: "But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!" The Trump administration moved last week to block Harvard from enrolling foreign students, but on Friday a judge suspended the order pending a hearing this week. Trump is furious at Harvard - which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners - for rejecting Washington's oversight on admissions and hiring, amid his claims the school is a hotbed of anti-Semitism and "woke" liberal ideology. Trump is attacking US universities and other sources of what he sees as left-leaning power in the country like the media as he tries to exert tight, unprecedented presidential control over life in America. In his fight with Harvard, Trump has threatened to put US$9 billion of government funding under review, then went on to freeze a first tranche of US$2.2 billion of grants and US$60 million of official contracts. The administration has also targeted a Harvard Medical School researcher for deportation.
