Harvard rejects several demands from the Trump administration, saying it would give too much control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.
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00:00Harvard rejects several demands from the Trump administration, saying it would give too much
00:05control of the school to a conservative government that portrays universities as dangerously leftist.
00:10Just hours after, Trump's administration says it was freezing $2.3 billion in federal funding to
00:16Harvard. This freeze follows an earlier statement from the administration, saying it was reviewing
00:21$9 billion in federal contracts and grants to Harvard. This is part of a broader crackdown
00:27on what it says is anti-Semitism linked to pro-Palestinian protests on campuses over the
00:32past 18 months. Harvard President Alan Garber says in a public letter, quote,
00:36no government, regardless of which party is in power, should dictate what private universities
00:41can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.
00:46The administration has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for several
00:51universities, pushing them to change their policies and claiming they haven't done enough to fight
00:55anti-Semitism on campus.