‘Tax should be levied as a political unit’: Trump threatened Harvard after freezing $ 2.2 billion funding
US President Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged at Harvard University that he again threatens to remove “tax exemption status” to “political, ideological and terrorist motivated/’support for the disease.
This follows the decision of $ 2.2 billion in the grant of Trump administration and $ 60 million in contracts, refusing to follow the university’s newly issued federal instructions.
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“Perhaps Harvard should lose his tax exemption status and tax as a political entity if it supports political, ideological and terrorist motivated/” disease? “Remember, the tax exemption position is completely casual on acting in public interest!” He said in a post on Truth Social.
Former US President Barack Obama reacted to the funding freeze, saying, “Harvard set an example for other high-ad institutions-to reject an illegal and haem-hand effort to prevent academic freedom, while all students in Harvard take concrete steps to ensure that intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate, and other institutions can be beneficial.”
Why were funding frozen?
Harvard implemented the funding freeze after Harvard refused to follow the 3 April instructions, which asked its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) offices to abolish, its work and amendment for admission practices, and cooperation with immigration screening for international students.
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“The administration’s recipe is beyond the power of the federal government. It violates the first amendment rights of Harvard and the government has more than the legal boundaries of the rights of the government under the title VI. Chase,” the university said.
In his letter to the administration, “Harvard is open to interact about what the university has done to improve the experience of each member of his community.
The Joint Task Force to combat the anti-Jewish anti-Jewish, which stopped funding, said that these steps were required to maintain civil rights and ensure the responsible use of taxpayer’s money by educational institutions.
