(Washington) The Government of Donald Trump wants to deprive Harvard federal funding, engaged in an showdown with the American president, according to a letter from the education secretary Linda McMahon on Monday addressed to the president of the prestigious university.
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“Harvard should no longer ask for federal subsidies, since she will no longer receive it,” wrote the secretary in her letter addressed to Alan Garber.
“Harvard will no longer be an institution funded by the State and will be able to operate as a private institution […] By collecting funds from its important pool of former wealthy students “in particular, she continues, claiming that the university established near Boston (northeast)” receives billions of dollars from taxpayers each year “, but without specifying the amounts at stake.
A great support from Israel, Donald Trump accuses Harvard anti -Semitism and other renowned American universities like Columbia, for having left the student movements against the war in Gaza on their campuses.
Large American universities are more generally in the crosshairs of the American right which accuses them of being households of progressive protest.
Harvard, the oldest university in the United States and one of the best classified in the world, has particularly attracted the wrath of the Republican president by attacking the freezing by his government of two billion dollars in federal subsidies, decided after the renowned institution refused to comply with a series of requirements by Donald Trump.
The American president wants a right of way on the procedures for the admission of students, the hiring of teachers or even universities programs in his viewfinder.
In her letter, the Minister of Education accuses Harvard of being “engaged in a systemic model of non-compliance with federal law”, “of continuing to engage in odious racism” or even “catastrophic management”.
“Today’s letter marks the end of new grants at university,” she concluded.
In a message sent to former students on Wednesday that AFP was aware, Alan Garber stressed that the university was engaged in a long existential battle and appealed to donations.
Donald Trump recently portrayed Harvard in “extreme left anti -Semitic institution”, “progressive mess” and “threat to democracy”.
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