Trump Suggests Giving Trade Schools Money Taken From Harvard

The New York Times ^ | May 26, 2025, 2:09 p.m. ET | Stephanie Saul

[E. Pluribus Unum]

In a social media post, the president mused about redirecting $3 billion in research grant funding that his administration has frozen or withdrawn, but he gave no details.

President Trump floated a new plan on Monday for the $3 billion he wants to strip from Harvard University, saying in a social media post that he was thinking about using the money to fund vocational schools.

“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,” Mr. Trump posted on Truth Social, his social media platform.

The announcement, among the president’s Memorial Day social media messages, did not appear to refer to any new cut in funding, but rather to a redistribution of money the administration already announced it had frozen or stripped from Harvard and its research partners.

Mr. Trump gave no details about how such a plan would work.

The message was accompanied by yet another post accusing Harvard of being slow to respond to the administration’s requests for information on “foreign student lists.” Mr. Trump said his administration wanted them in order to determine how many “radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country.”

The posts seemed intended to keep up public relations pressure on Harvard, the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. Harvard is engaged in an epic battle with the White House, rooted in the administration’s claims that the university tolerates antisemitism and promotes liberal ideology.

Harvard declined on Monday to comment on the president’s post.

The university is battling the White House in federal court in Boston to secure the reinstatement of grants and contracts that the government has frozen or withdrawn, amounting to more than $3 billion. In a separate lawsuit, the...

[albie]

Wow! Smart! And yes, “badly needed”.

[hinckley buzzard]

Great idea. Some judge would put the kibosh on it though.

[Mark]

As long as DOGE can look at their records, then great.

[PGalt]

GREAT idea!

[Petrosius]

Better to get out of the education business all together. It is not a federal responsibility.

[FreeReign]

...Money Taken From Harvard.

Ha ha NY Times. You actually mean our tax payer money no longer going to Harvard.

[Texas Eagle]

A) It's not Harvard's money.

B) How do you prevent the money from being misused by the trade schools?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Trimester system at junior colleges. No summers off. Get straight to work in as little over a year. I’ve said it here before.

[ridesthemiles]

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!!

HARD TO DISAGREE ON ANY LEVEL

MOST of us deal with tradesmen more than we deal with HARVARD grads, anyway

[ridesthemiles]

ASSIGN A DOGE MEMBER TO OVERSEE

[9YearLurker]

Without their more than 30% foreign students, surely they’d have some classrooms, dormitories, dining halls, etc., available for some of those trade students instead!

[Texas Eagle]

Get the government out of the student grant and loan business altogether. Trump won’t be President forever. Sooner or later we will elect another [redacted] demonicRAT for President and the first thing they’ll do is increase the cost of trade schools.

[Texas Eagle]

And what happens after another [redacted] demonicRAT gets elected President?

[GreatRoad]

Fantastic idea!

[T-Bird45]

Paging Mike Rowe…Mike Rowe to the white courtesy phone…the White House is holding.

[datricker]

Bring back wood shop!

[Honorary Serb]

I support Harvard, where I received my PhD! NIH and NSF grants supported my education and research.

Those grants that Trump wants to divert to “trade schools” support research on cancer, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, ALS, etc. etc. Harvard scientists who do this research are NOT responsible for the antisemitic and anti-Christian activity at Harvard and other universities!

Trade schools can take care of themselves, thank you! But reducing the population of potential university students to “trade school” status only helps communist China become the world research leader!

By the way, some (mostly ignorant) people call my undergraduate institution, MIT, a “trade school”. It was not one when I attended, and if it can get away from so much computer science, it will not be one now!

[dfwgator]

Harvard’s endowment, the University’s largest financial asset, stood at $53.2 billion as of June 30, 2024.

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I think they will be ok.

[Antihero101607]

𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘨𝘦𝘵 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳. 𝘐𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘭 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺.

This!