Trump’s Ivy League Deals Set to Funnel Cash to Trade Schools

The Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island.Photographer: Scott Eisen/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s campaign to squeeze billions of dollars out of Harvard University and other elite colleges looks set to create a windfall for US trade schools.

Trump wants Harvard to build one of its own, as part of a deal to restore frozen federal funding, according to Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. “The Harvard Vocational School,” Lutnick said Thursday. “That’s what America needs.”