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Trump Wants $1 Billion From Harvard—Here’s What Other Schools Have Paid To Settle Probes
The Trump administration demands $1 billion over alleged racial discrimination and policy disputes, with a federal judge blocking funding cuts pending further review.
- The administration has demanded $1 billion from Harvard and threatened to withhold federal funding starting in 2025, as part of a funding dispute, the source reports.
- Amid concerns about campus protests over the war in Gaza, diversity programs, and transgender policies, the Department of Education requested Harvard documents after the university declined to provide them.
- Harvard has filed two lawsuits challenging the administration's actions, and Claudine Gay, Harvard President, called the $1 billion payment demand arbitrary and unjustified.
- A federal judge blocked the administration's planned funding cuts in December, with Judge Allison Burroughs saying the freeze conflicted with First Amendment protections and lacked reasoned explanation.
- Amid ongoing litigation, the dispute has frozen federal research funding that many U.S. research institutions rely on and raised court concerns about funding conditions for Harvard University.
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Trump demands $1B from Harvard, deepening feud
What happenedPresident Donald Trump on Tuesday doubled his $500 million demand from Harvard University, ramping up his long-running feud with the university over disputed claims of antisemitism. Harvard is “feeding a lot of ‘nonsense’ to the Failing New York Times” about the cash demand being dropped, Trump said in a series of social media posts Monday night and Tuesday morning. “We are now seeking One Billion Dollars in damages, and want nothin…
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