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A Defense Department official told others in the Trump administration that a $12 million biological threat research grant at Harvard shouldn’t be terminated because of national security risks, according to the school’s latest court filing.
The DoD official said Harvard “is currently the top performing team” researching emerging biological threats. “Inadequate knowledge of the biological threat landscape poses grave and immediate harm to national security.
The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.
President Trump wrote on social media that he's "considering" giving $3 billion in Harvard grant money to trade schools around the U.S.
Since its initial criticism of Harvard as a place where antisemitism was condoned or ignored during last spring’s pro-Palestinian protests, the government’s list of complaints about the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university has grown by the day.
President Trump said Monday he was considering taking $3 billion of grant money from Harvard University and distributing it to trade schools around the country, amid an ongoing battle with the country’s oldest university.
President Donald Trump suggested boosting trade schools, opening a new dimension of his administration's escalating fight with Harvard University.
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to divert billions in grant dollars away from Harvard University and give those funds to trade schools across the US, escalating his clash with the elite institution.
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President Trump wants to divert federal funds from Harvard to trade schools. But experts say the process isn't that simple.
A director of contracting at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sought to defy President Donald Trump’s cuts to