Trump threatens to strip Harvard of $3B in grants and give money to trade schools

The conflict between the Trump administration and Harvard University took a new turn Monday as President Donald Trump threatened to take some $3 billion in federal grants from the university and redirect them to trade schools.

This follows the earlier freezing of $2.2 billion in grants, based on concerns over antisemitism on campus. Trump is now accusing Harvard of being "very slow" to turn over information on foreign students, according to Fox News. 

"We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country," Trump wrote on Truth Social Monday. 

"Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!" Trump wrote. "The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) - But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!" 

In another post on Monday, Trump wrote on Truth Social that “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!”

“Harvard bears a lot of responsibility for the demise of education in America and the substitution of propaganda, but the Trump administration often engages in conduct that’s overboard," said Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus, according to KATV News.