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Trump Threatens to Divert $3 Billion in Harvard Grants to Trade Schools

He renewed demands for Harvard’s international student records following a court block on efforts to bar foreign enrollments.

The Harvard University shield "VERITAS" sits above a campus entrance gate at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., April 15, 2025.
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - August 31, 2024: Crowd of people in front of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library (c. 1915). Harvard VERITAS shield banners hang in front of building.
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Overview

  • On Memorial Day, Trump announced on Truth Social that he is considering reallocating $3 billion in federal grants originally meant for Harvard to U.S. vocational and trade schools.
  • He branded Harvard “very antisemitic” and accused the university of delaying the release of data on its roughly 6,800 international students to root out “radicalized lunatics.”
  • The proposed funding shift would build on the administration’s earlier freeze of about $2.2 billion in research grants and its threats to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status.
  • Harvard has filed lawsuits alleging that the administration’s funding and enrollment actions violate constitutional and federal laws and has sought to restore its grant funding in court.
  • U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Department of Homeland Security’s move to strip Harvard of its international student enrollment authority, underscoring wider debates over academic freedom.