Trump to yank another billion dollars in Harvard funding in latest blow over school’s antisemitism, admissions defiance: report

President Trump reportedly plans to propulsion an further cardinal dollars successful backing from Harvard University, conscionable a week after freezing $2.2 cardinal successful multi-year national grants over the Ivy League school’s refusal to marque changes to curb alleged antisemitism and overhaul admissions policies.

Following the week-long escalating dispute, sources told The Wall Street Journal that the Trump medication is looking to retreat an further cardinal dollars from the school’s backing for wellness research.

Donald Trump plans to yank different cardinal dollars successful backing from Harvard. Getty Images

The retaliation comes aft Harvard released a lengthy database of demands from the Trump medication that White House officials had thought would stay private, according to the sources.

Trump officials were readying to dainty Harvard much leniently than Columbia University, but changed people aft the nation’s astir salient university’s president publicized the letter’s contents, including requirements that Harvard let federal-government oversight of admissions, hiring and the ideology of students and unit — which were a nonstarter, according to the report.

Students, module and members of the Harvard University assemblage rally connected Thursday, April 17, 2025, successful Cambridge, Mass. AP

Harvard President Alan Garber addressed the missive from Trump’s caller Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, noting the requests made wide that “the volition is not to enactment with america to code antisemitism successful a cooperative and constructive manner,” according to the Journal.

Garber added: “We person informed the medication done our ineligible counsel that we volition not judge their projected agreement.”