US EditionTrump administration asks IRS to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status
- The Trump administration escalated its conflict with Harvard University in May 2025 by freezing over $2.2 billion in federal grants and prompting the IRS to consider revoking its tax-exempt status.
- This action followed Harvard's refusal to comply with administration demands to change admissions policies, end diversity programs, and audit certain departments alleged to promote antisemitic harassment or ideological bias.
- The Department of Homeland Security canceled $2.7 million in two specific grants related to violence prevention and program evaluation, and demanded detailed records of foreign student visa holders by April 30.
- President Alan Garber said the administration's demands violate Harvard's First Amendment rights and statutory limits, while advocacy groups warned that politicizing federal powers threatens organizational independence.
- The standoff significantly endangers Harvard's funding and autonomy, suggesting broader implications for universities, advocacy groups, and their federal relationships under the current administration.
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At campus symposium, Jewish panelists push back as billionaire Bill Ackman defends Trump’s feud with Harvard
(JTA) — In the days before hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman was to speak at Sunday’s conference on “Jews and Elite Universities” at New York’s Center for Jewish History, some 60 scholars signed a letter objecting that the vocal critic of Harvard’s handling of antisemitism allegations had no place speaking in such a setting. The signers, either associated with CJH or users of its archives, found it “disgraceful” that the center gave top billing…
The Left’s Harvard Meltdown Exposes Their Blatant Hypocrisy On Weaponization Of Government Against The People
By Bill Wilson The power-hungry political class that has wreaked havoc on American independence, security and freedom for decades extends far beyond Congress, to a dense web of heavily influential tax-exempt institutions and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) funded by a steady stream of taxpayer dollars. This grim reality is at the heart of President Donald Trump’s so called “war” on the shadowy institutional class, a group filled with unele…
Leo Terrell: DOJ plans to use litigation to ‘eliminate antisemitism’
Leo Terrell, senior counsel to the assistant attorney general for civil rights, says he’s undeterred by critics of the Trump administration’s approach to combating antisemitism, arguing that those dissatisfied with its deportation strategy are “trying to justify, in my opinion, the antisemitic behavior” of those individuals. Terrell, who has a career spanning three decades as a civil rights attorney and a conservative media personality, sat down…
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Idaho PressCan Trump strip Harvard of its charitable status? Scholars of nonprofit law and accounting describe the obstacles in his way
Getting into Harvard University is hard, and so is getting rid of its charitable status. Scott Eisen/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump has repeatedly threatened to revoke Harvard University’s tax-exempt status, and some media outlets have reported that the Internal Revenue Service is taking steps in that direction. Harvard President Alan Garber says this would be “highly illegal.” Several U.S. senators, all Democrats, have urged the IRS inspect…
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