One of the nation’s premier colleges is about to learn that defying President Trump is a grave mistake.
This morning, Trump posted on Truth Social that he will be taking away far-left Harvard University’s tax-exempt status after the school refused to comply with five key demands from his administration and sued instead.
“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status,” Trump wrote. “It’s what they deserve!”
As The New York Post notes, Harvard’s tax exemptions have played a key role in helping the school amass the largest university endowment in the entire country. It currently stands at roughly $53 billion, with $2.4 billion ‘earned’ in the 2024 fiscal year.
As ABC notes, Trump had previously demanded Harvard lose its tax-exempt status after the university refused to comply with the administration’s commonsense demands, including actions on antisemitism and the use of DEI on campus.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported that the Department of Health and Human Services on April 11, along with other federal agencies, issued Harvard a letter demanding five key reforms if it wished to continue receiving federal research funding.
The demands were:
- Shuttering of all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs;
- A university-wide “viewpoint audit” to eliminate leftist ideological monocultures;
- Forced hiring and admissions practices to ensure conservative representation;
- Defunding and disbanding of radical pro-Hamas student groups;
- And complete transparency on foreign funding sources.
After Harvard refused, the Trump administration on April 15 froze $2.2 billion</> in federal grants to Harvard due to its coddling of antisemitism and bigotry on campus.
Harvard sued the Trump Administration a week later to restore the funding.
“The administration’s prescription goes beyond the power of the federal government,” Harvard President Garber whined at the time. “It violates Harvard’s First Amendment rights and exceeds the statutory limits of the government’s authority under Title VI.”
“And it threatens our values as a private institution devoted to the pursuit, production, and dissemination of knowledge. No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” he added.
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