Trump, Harvard
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The pressure campaign to try to force the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university to fall in line with President Trump’s agenda has sprawled beyond just one singular task force or agency.
Harvard is the first school to sue the administration after a back-and-forth between President Alan Garber and most of Trump's team.
The administration has gone from eliminating Harvard's grants to targeting its tax-exempt status to halting its ability to enroll international students.
President Trump says there are so many Americans that would like to get into Harvard that it doesn't make sense that 31 percent of the student body are foreigners.
Harvard University sued the Trump administration on Friday after having its ability to host foreign students revoked. The move marked the latest escalation in the ongoing back-and-forth between the president and one of the nation’s most prestigious universities.
The Trump administration is targeting the Ivy League university under a law typically used to go after government contractors for swindling.
Another investigation into Harvard University was launched by the Trump administration, this time looking at its admissions.
President Trump said Friday in the Oval Office that Harvard will “have to change its ways” after his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said it would take away the university’s ability to
Administration officials pick and choose which civil rights protections they want to enforce, and for whom. In his drive to purge diversity efforts in the federal government and beyond, President Trump has expressed outright hostility to civil rights protections.
Watching a grifter who once ran his own fraudulent “university” try to devalue the institution would be funny if it weren’t so grotesque and tragic.