cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/28676983
By Syma Mohammed Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST
"Harvard University has been hit with a $2.3bn federal funding freeze after the Ivy League institution took a stand against the Trump administration’s ongoing demands.
The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of Harvard’s $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from Harvard University lawyers to the Trump administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.
The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"
Harvard is still 100% in the wrong here. Treating all speech critical of the Israeli state as antisemitism is not the same as hatred for the Jewish people.
Imperfect allies are not the same as enemies
What does Harvard spend 6.4 billions dollars a year on?
That could fund the next three presidential campaigns!
a lot (if not most) of that $2b ‘frozen’ is probably research grants from NIH (money donvict thinks he controls) for medical and biomedical research.
if congress would just wake tf up, they could get the nation’s purse back where it belongs–with them and not lost in a sad leaky diaper.
I didn’t even think of the research grants thanks for pointing that out.
Yeah, almost all of Trump’s grant freezes are related to science and tech research that is funded by the government so the US remains competitive in commerce, defense, etc.
This shit is shortsighted AF.
Not if your goal is to weaken the US as a spiteful old Russian asset.
If you want to onshore production of many of the things trump what’s to bring back to the US he will probably need the scientific and research backing to insure that the factory can work at all.
Aids, cancer, you know pointless things
