Trump Administration Cuts Additional $450 Million in Grants to Harvard

The New York Times ^ | May 13, 2025, 1:41 p.m. ET | Michael C. Bender and Alan Blinder

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The latest broadside from the federal government comes as Harvard faces multiple investigations from across the Trump administration.

The Trump administration on Tuesday canceled an additional $450 million in grants for Harvard University, a fresh broadside in the clash between the federal government and the oldest university in the country.

There were no new accusations leveled at Harvard in a statement announcing the latest cuts, issued by the administration’s task force on antisemitism. Instead, government officials accused the school of not resolving the “pervasive race discrimination and antisemitic harassment” they described as “plaguing” the campus in Cambridge, Mass.

“There is a dark problem on Harvard’s campus, and by prioritizing appeasement over accountability, institutional leaders have forfeited the school’s claim to taxpayer support,” the task force said.

The task force did not detail which grants were being canceled, though it said eight federal agencies were involved in cutting off money. The officials said the $450 million in cuts were on top of $2.2 billion the administration had already frozen.

A Harvard spokesman did not immediately return a request for comment.

The government has been at odds with Harvard since late March, when the task force said it would review about $9 billion in federal money designated for the university and its affiliates. Harvard later rejected a list of intrusive demands from the federal government and filed a lawsuit to challenge the suspension of the $2.2 billion in multiyear grants.

Last week, the education secretary, Linda McMahon, told Harvard not to apply for future federal grants. In a response on Monday, Harvard’s president, Alan M. Garber, said the university and the Trump administration shared “common ground on a number of critical issues, including the importance of ending antisemitism and other bigotry on campus.”

But, he warned, shared ambitions were “undermined and threatened by the federal government’s...”

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[Parley Baer]

Good news.

[DesertRhino]

“Alan M. Garber, said the university and the Trump administration shared “common ground on a number of critical issues, including the importance of ending antisemitism and other bigotry on campus.””

Yeah? Well there is still the problem that you have 53 billion in the bank and tens of thousands of very wealthy graduates out there you can milk.

It’s morally evil to take tax money from a waitress or Uber driver by force, and hand it to a super wealthy elitist group because they want it. Eff em all...

[monkeyshine]

Harvard is off base. Yes, they can teach and administer pretty much however they want. But they have no inherent right to taxpayer dollars.

[aquila48]

Why are rich private universities whose declared policy is to discriminate against whites, Asians and jews getting one cent from the government?

[packrat35]

Harvard can continue to stonewall all they want, but even if funding is later restored, its reputation is being rightfully smeared and its dirty laundry aired in public.

This will hurt it in the long run as more alumni stop donating and many students avoid it not to be smeared with its tarnished luster...

[Governor Dinwiddie]

This dude sounds like he is asking for a bribe in order to end antisemitism.