Constitutional Debate Escalates Over Harvard as Trump Freezes $2.2 Billion in Government Funding
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
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🗓️ 17 April 2025
⏱️ 74 minutes
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Summary
Harvard University could lose about $2.2 billion in grants and tens of millions of dollars in contracts.
The federal government is now freezing the university’s funds, after its heads refused to follow policies that would get rid of diversity programs and put some restrictions on student protests regarded as anti-Semitic.
Harvard argues that this is about protecting constitutional rights, while the Trump administration says it’s about upholding civil rights laws.
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| 0:00.0 | Harvard University is losing access to $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts at the federal level. |
| 0:08.8 | As the Trump administration freezes those funds over Harvard's refusal to get rid of diversity programs |
| 0:14.8 | and also other measures involving anti-Semitism on campuses. |
| 0:19.8 | And meanwhile, the Trump administration is saying that homegrown criminals, |
| 0:23.6 | those are criminals who are American citizens, could get sent off to El Salvador to be detained. |
| 0:29.9 | And also in other news, it turns out that even criminal aliens on the terrorist watch list |
| 0:35.1 | were receiving taxpayer-funded benefits. And also, the White House |
| 0:39.7 | is reportedly preparing to cut taxpayer funding to NPR and PBS. I'm the Epic Times Senior |
| 0:46.7 | investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:57.0 | Harvard University, they're losing access to a lot of money right now. |
| 1:01.0 | Let me go through what's happening. |
| 1:03.0 | Epic Times says two weeks ago, the Department of Education and Health and Human Services, |
| 1:09.0 | along with the General Services Administration, |
| 1:12.8 | launched a review of approximately $9 billion in federal funding provided to Harvard. |
| 1:19.4 | It says further on April 11th, the three agencies sent the university another letter with |
| 1:25.0 | a more detailed list of demands. |
| 1:27.3 | And it says this new letter instructs Harvard to overhaul its international admissions process |
| 1:32.3 | to screen out applicants deemed, quote, hostile to American values or supportive of terrorism or anti-Semitism. |
| 1:42.3 | In other words, don't bring in foreign students who are hostile |
| 1:47.4 | to the United States or support like terrorist groups. You know, you might not want to bring |
| 1:53.6 | them here and give them a Harvard education. Now, it also says, it also called on the university, |
| 1:58.9 | the university to commission an external audit meaning outside |
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