Harvard Intensifies Funding Fight With Trump Administration
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Harvard University sued several US agencies and top officials for freezing billions of dollars in federal funding, significantly ratcheting up a high-stakes showdown with the Trump administration.
The government unlawfully suspended Harvard’s funding after it refused to comply with “unconstitutional demands” to overhaul governance, discipline and hiring policies, as well as diversity programs, lawyers for the university argued in a lawsuit filed Monday in federal court in Massachusetts. The Trump administration has accused the nation’s oldest and richest university of failing to combat antisemitism on campus.