Overview

• Harvard filed a lawsuit in federal court seeking to overturn the Trump administration's freeze of $2.2 billion in research grants, citing First Amendment violations.
• The administration imposed conditions on funding, including plagiarism audits, ideological oversight, and restrictions on international students, which Harvard rejected.
• The Department of Homeland Security escalated the conflict by canceling $2.7 billion in aid and demanding records on international students' activities.
• Harvard President Alan Garber warned that the funding cuts would severely impact research on diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s, and Parkinson’s.
• The government is reportedly planning an additional $1 billion cut to health research funding, further intensifying the standoff.