Harvard University is suing Trump administration for freezing financing

Harvard University has filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, claiming that its freezing at billions of dollars is illegal.

Its President Alan M Garber announced the action on Monday in a letter to the university community stating that freezing funding of $ 2 billion will make it difficult to research critical diseases.

Harvard, the richest university in the world, rejected a list of demands last week that the Trump administration said it was intended to limit initiatives for diversity and fight anti-Semitism at school.

In response to the lawsuit, the White House said “the Federal Aid Train” of Gravy with federal assistance “.

The reduction in funding has been applied to other elite universities, and a new government special group for anti-Semitism has identified at least 60 universities for review.

President Donald Trump has accused the universities of failing to defend Jewish students during last year’s campus protests against the Gaza war and US support for Israel.

In the letter on Monday, Mr Garber said, “The consequences of the government will be severe and long-lasting.”

Studies on pediatric cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and Parkinson’s disease will be affected, he writes.

“In recent weeks, the federal government has launched a wide attack on critical financing partnerships that make this invaluable study possible,” the school said.

It states that the detention of federal funding violates Harvard’s constitutional rights and is used as a “leverage to obtain control over Harvard academic decisions.”

The Trump administration has signaled that another $ 1 billion federal funding can be terminated. Harvard receives a total of about $ 9 billion a year, which is mostly spent on research.

Harvard tax exemption status and its ability to enroll international students can also be threatened.

Mr Garber, who is a Jew, admitted that the Harvard campus, located in Massachusetts, had problems with anti-Semitism but said he had identified target groups aimed at the problem.

He said the university would release the report of two working groups, which are considered in anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bias.

The Trump administration is aimed at other private institutions of Ivy League, including stopping $ 1 billion at Cornell University and $ 510 million at Brown University. Federal dollars also play a huge role there in financing new scientific breakthroughs.

Others, such as the University of Colombian, the epicenter of the protesting protesting campus last year, have agreed with some demands after $ 400 million in federal funds were threatened.

Harvard requirements included consent to the government -approved external audits of the university’s curriculum, as well as the hiring and admission data.

In response, Harvard released a bubble letter rejecting what he described as a “absorption” by the federal government.

Former US President Barack Obama, a Harvard graduate, said he supported the university, calling the money freezing illegally.

The White House answered Monday night in a statement.

“The federal assistance engraving of institutions such as Harvard, which enriches its high -level bureaucrats with tax dollars from the fight against US families, is over.

“Taxpayer funds are a privilege and Harvard does not meet the basic conditions needed to access this privilege.”

The Gallup study last summer suggested that trust in higher education over time among Americans from all political circles.

This was partly conducted, according to a study with a growing conviction that universities are promoting a political program. The decline was particularly steep among Republicans.