Trump admin cancels additional grants to Harvard

• Harvard, one of several elite universities whose federal grants and funding have taken a hit under the second Trump administration, pushed back on changes the administration demanded last month and is currently suing the administration.

Driving the news: Eight federal agencies will terminate grants to the university, the administration's Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism said in a news release Tuesday.

• "Harvard's campus, once a symbol of academic prestige, has become a breeding ground for virtue signaling and discrimination," the task force said.
• It alleged the university had failed to confront what the task force considered "pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus."

Catch up quick: The cuts come on top of the administration task force's April announcement that it would cut $2.2 billion in federal funds to the Ivy League institution.

• That termination came after the university rejected the administration's proposal to keep billions in funds flowing.

• In an April 11 letter to the university's president, the administration laid out a series of demands. They included discontinuing DEI, rejecting international applicants who are "hostile to ... American values" and commissioning a third-party audit of Harvard departments for "viewpoint diversity."

Earlier this month, the administration announced it would pause all new federal grant funding to the university.

• Trump has also threatened to revoke the university's tax-exempt status.

Threat level: Education industry voices have warned that the Trump administration's blunt cuts could pose a major setback to innovation.

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