Trump says he's considering rerouting $3 billion in Harvard grants to U.S. trade schools

[ad_1] President Trump on Monday escalated his assaults on Harvard College, saying he is contemplating giving $3 billion the Ivy League establishment receives in grant cash to commerce faculties throughout the U.S.

"I'm contemplating taking Three Billion {Dollars} of Grant Cash away from a really antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all throughout our land. What an incredible funding that might be for the USA, and so badly wanted!!!" Mr. Trump stated in a publish on Fact Social. Commerce faculties give attention to educating sensible abilities for particular trades or professions.

It wasn't instantly clear how Mr. Trump would shift the cash, and if the grants come from the Harvard funding that his administration has already frozen.

Mr. Trump issued the recent risk after he moved final week to block Harvard from enrolling worldwide college students and has taken different steps to freeze billions of {dollars} in Harvard's federal funding , as he claims the establishment has not performed sufficient to handle anti-semitism on campus.

Harvard did not instantly reply to a request for remark.

The college filed a lawsuit final month in response to Mr. Trump's earlier transfer to strip it of $2.2 billion in federal funding , alleging that his motion was illegal.

Final week, Harvard filed a second lawsuit over the Trump administration's try to bar it from enrolling international college students. Harvard President Alan Garber had referred to as it a "revocation" that "continues a sequence of presidency actions to retaliate in opposition to Harvard for our refusal to give up our tutorial independence and to undergo the federal authorities's unlawful assertion of management over our curriculum, our school, and our scholar physique."

A federal choose later briefly blocked the Trump administration from stopping Harvard from enrolling international college students. The ruling was criticized by the White Home.

"The American folks elected President Trump – not random native judges with their very own liberal agenda – to run the nation," White Home spokeswoman Abigail Jackson stated final week. "These unelected judges don't have any proper to cease the Trump Administration from exercising their rightful management over immigration coverage and nationwide safety coverage."

Mr. Trump has additionally stated he needs to strip Harvard of its tax-exempt standing as he makes an attempt to exert management over the college's insurance policies, together with halting Harvard's range, fairness and inclusion applications and altering its hiring practices. The Trump administration additionally needs to audit the coed physique and school for "viewpoint range."

The White Home has additionally taken purpose at different high-profile universities, withdrawing federal funding from Columbia College, the College of Pennsylvania and Cornell College, in what's being seen an effort to coerce them into complying with the Trump administration's agenda.

Megan Cerullo

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