Trump Threatens to Cut $3B in Harvard Grants, Says School 'Very Slow' to Supply Foreign Student List

President Donald Trump is planning to cut $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard University, saying they are "very slow" to supply a list of foreign students.

The Details: On Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard that the university could no longer enroll foreign students due to its "refusal to comply with multiple requests" to provide pertinent information on foreign students, though a federal judge blocked the move shortly thereafter. President Trump mentioned the funding cuts in two different Truth Social posts and is threatening to give the federal grants to trade schools instead of Harvard.

Key Quotes: Trump wrote in a first Truth Social post, "I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS." Fifteen minutes later he wrote in a second post, "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."

For Context: On Friday, Judge Allison D. Burroughs, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, granted a temporary restraining order to Harvard, preventing the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The program permits the university to admit international students with J-1 or F-1 visas to attend colleges and universities in the United States. Trump's administration also said on Tuesday it will cancel the federal government's remaining $100 million in federal contracts with Harvard.

How the Media Covered It: Fox News (Right bias) reported that Trump's threat to cut federal grants to Harvard is because the university is slow to turn in a list of foreign students. Axios (Lean Left) reported that the Trump administration's efforts are part of a "wider crackdown on colleges it considers to have liberal biases." Sources across the political spectrum noted that Trump is considering giving the federal grant money to trade schools.

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