The Trump administration stopped $ 2.2 billion in Harvard’s money after the pressure defied

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The Donald Trump administration said it would freeze more than $ 2.2 billion of financing for Harvard University, after it became the first high education institution in the United States to resist public pressure from the government.

The administration issued a statement late on Monday on the announcement of the discounts in the Federal Federal financing of Ivi Ligab, hours after Harvard rejected what he said was a “regulation” of the institution.

“HarvardHis statement today enhances the disturbing Mental mentality, which is considered a settlement in the universities and colleges of our most famous nation-that federal investment does not come with the responsibility of supporting civil rights laws. “

The step by the Trump administration raises the risks in a deep confrontation between the White House and elite institutions in the United States, and follow the financing discounts in others Universities The government accuses insufficient anti -Semitism during the pro -Palestinians protests in the past two years.

This comes after the President of Harvard University, Alan Garper, said on Monday afternoon that he rejected the demands submitted by the administration last week, which he denounced that it seeks to “the direct government organization” of intellectual conditions “at Harvard University.”

Garbar said that the Trump administration sent a “updated and expanded list of demands”, accompanied by a warning that the institution “must comply” in order to maintain its “financial relationship” with the government. The government’s speech was expanded on one that Harvard sent earlier in the month.

“We have informed the administration through our legal advisor that we will not accept their proposed agreement,” said Giber, in a letter to the Harvard community, which was published on Monday. “The university will not give in its independence or abandon its constitutional rights.”

“Although some of the demands set by the government aim to combat anti -Semitism, the majority represents the direct government organization of” intellectual conditions “at Harvard University.

In a statement after the reduction in the funds, Harvard said: “In order for the government to retract these partnerships, it is now not only risks the health and welfare of millions of individuals, but also economic security and vitality of our nation.”

The university’s lawyers have argued that the government’s demands opposed the first amendment to the United States constitution over freedom of expression, “invading (D) university freedoms”, and “defrauding Harvard’s rights (ED) by asking for unnecessary and definition treatments due to its alleged damage that the government was not explained through the mandatory processes established by the conference and required by the law.”

Trump administration letter It has provided many demands at Harvard University, including that the university reforms the governance structure and admission operations – partly to prevent the acceptance of international students who are considered “anti -American values” – and ending the policies and programs of fairness, shares and integration.

The government also ordered the university to implement a disciplinary measure “meaning” about “violations” that occurred during the campus protests during the past two academic years, and expelled the students participating in “assaulting a student at the Israeli Business Administration at Harvard University.”

The joint work team said in its statement: “The disruption of the learning that was afflicted with universities in recent years is unacceptable.” “The harassment of Jewish students is unbearable. It is time for elite universities to take the problem seriously and commit to a meaningful change if they want to continue receiving taxpayers support.”

A group of professors A lawsuit against the administration Because of his threat to finance funding from Harvard University – one of the attempts of faculty members at American universities elite to decline against Trump’s attacks on their institutions.

The government freezes federal funds for multiple universities, including Colombia and the University of Pennsylvania.

In the Trail Trump campaign I promised a fine Higher education institutions for their position on the issues of the “Culture War” and their diversity initiatives.