Trump's Fresh Threat To Harvard University After Freezing $2B Funding: 'To Be Taxed As A Political Entity'

The reaction comes shortly after the Trump administration froze more than $2 billion in federal funds for Harvard University, hours after the elite college rejected a list of demands from the White House.

By : ABP Live News | Updated at : 15 Apr 2025 11:03 PM (IST)

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned Harvard University that its tax-exempt status could be revoked if it keeps pushing what he claimed "political, ideological and terrorist-inspired sickness".

In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Trump threatened to tax Harvard as a "political entity" after the elite university refused to comply with a list of demands by the White House.

"Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting “Sickness?” Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!" the US President wrote on his Truth Social platform.

The reaction comes shortly after the Trump administration froze more than $2 billion in federal funds for Harvard University, hours after the elite college rejected a list of demands from the White House.

The White House had sent a list of demands to Harvard last week which the US government claimed was designed to fight antisemitism on campus. The Trump administration had called for changes in hiring, admissions and teaching.

However, Harvard rejected the demands from the Trump administration with the University President Alan Garber saying that the demands by the Department of Education would allow the US government "to control the Harvard community" and threaten the school's "values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge."

"No government - regardless of which party is in power - should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue," Garber said in a public letter.

Shortly after, President Donald Trump's administration announced it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to the school.

Published at : 15 Apr 2025 08:16 PM (IST)
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