President Trump on Monday said he was considering taking $3 billion of grant money from Harvard University and distributing it to trade schools around the country, amid an ongoing battle with the country’s oldest university.
“I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump wrote in a Monday morning post on Truth Social. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!”
The administration has escalated its back-and-forth with the Ivy League institution, with the Department of Homeland Security ordering Thursday that the school be taken off the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification, which is necessary for enrolling international students.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said the school had to be held accountable for “fostering violence, failing to curb antisemitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.”
The school sued the administration on Friday morning, alleging its First Amendment right was violated. Hours later, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs temporarily blocked the administration’s move to rescind the school’s SEVP certification.
