Harvard University sued the Trump administration Monday in an attempt to stop the government from freezing billions in federal funding to the elite institution.
The scathing lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts, accused the White House of using the funding “as leverage to gain control of academic decision making at Harvard.”
Last week, the Trump administration announced that it would freeze $2.2 billion in federal funding and another $1 billion in grants, and demanded a wide array of concessions, claiming that the measures were necessary to fight antisemitism on campus.
Trump himself also threatened to use the IRS to revoke the university’s tax exempt status.
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