Trump threatens Harvard’s tax-exempt status: What to know

What Loss of Federal Funding and Tax-Exempt Status Could Mean for Harvard

For decades, Harvard University has remained atop many prestigious rankings, alongside seven other Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT, and the most elite, expensive, private, nonprofit institutions across the nation. If President Donald Trump succeeds in revoking its tax-exempt or federal grant eligibility status—which he’s threatened to do on multiple occasions in the past month—America’s oldest university, founded in 1636, could be on a much di…

Trump says the government will revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status. The university’s president says that would be illegal

By Andy Rose and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump says Harvard University will be stripped of its tax-exempt status, redoubling an extraordinary threat amid a broader chess match over free speech, political ideology and federal funding at the Ivy League school and across American academia. “We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump posted Friday morning on Truth Social. Trump floa…

Harvard declares Trump's threat to revoke tax-exempt status unlawful​

Harvard University has pushed back against President Donald Trump’s threat to revoke its tax-exempt status, stating that such an action would be unlawful. Trump reiterated the warning on Friday from Palm Beach, Florida, writing on Truth Social that Harvard deserves to lose this privilege. In response, a Harvard spokesperson told ABC News that the president has no “legal basis” to strip the institution’s tax-exempt status, warning of the conseque…

Trump admin now blames Harvard demands as a mistake due to its own incompetence

By now many in this country not pathologically glued to Fox News are familiar with the fact that the Trump administration demanded a bevy of onerous concessions from Harvard University as conditional for receiving billions in future federal funding....

Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard

Harvard University received an emailed letter from the Trump administration last Friday that included a series of demands about hiring, admissions and curriculum so onerous that school officials decided they had no choice but to take on the White House. The university announced its intentions on Monday, setting off a tectonic battle between one of the country’s most prestigious universities and a U.S. president. Then, almost immediately, came a …