The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it is stripping an additional $450 million in federal grants from Harvard University after $2 billion in federal funding had already been frozen.
The “Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism” said the additional freeze comes after the Ivy League school “repeatedly failed to confront the pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus.” The new cuts are to grants handed out through eight different federal agencies.
“Harvard’s campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination. This is not leadership; it is cowardice,” the task force wrote in a statement announcing the additional cuts. “And it’s not academic freedom; it’s institutional disenfranchisement. There is a dark problem on Harvard’s campus, and by prioritizing…
