Trump floats sending $3B in Harvard grants to trade schools

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Trump floats sending $3B in Harvard grants to trade schools

President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to redistribute $3 billion in grant money from Harvard to trade schools, opening up yet another chapter in his escalating fight with the university.

“What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!,”

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. He slammed the school as “very antisemitic” in the post, but did not delve into the specifics around any potential plan to redistribute funds, what grant money he might pull or when the action could take place.

Trump last week

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, who comprise roughly 27 percent of the university’s total enrollment, over what Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said was Harvard’s failure to comply with an extensive public records request from DHS. A

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Friday.

“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,”

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Monday. “Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!”

Both Harvard and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment from POLITICO.

The president first clashed with the university in April, when

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demands to revamp its admission, disciplinary and governance standards. Almost immediately, the White House responded by blocking $2.2 billion in federal grants from reaching the school.

In early May, the president announced he would revoke the university’s tax-exempt status. “It’s what they deserve!” he wrote on

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Harvard, meanwhile, has

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— both over its freeze on funding and attack on the

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