NPR News: 05-23-2025 6AM EDT
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| 0:00.0 | Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman. The Department of Homeland Security says it's |
| 0:05.1 | revoking Harvard's ability to enroll international students. From member station GBAH in Boston, |
| 0:10.8 | Kirk Carrapeza reports it's a significant escalation in the White House's feud with the university. |
| 0:16.3 | DHS has told Harvard's president, the university can't enroll foreign students because it failed to provide student disciplinary records. |
| 0:24.1 | It's telling current students to transfer out or they'll lose their visa status. |
| 0:28.7 | Harvard calls the move unlawful, saying the school remains committed to hosting global students and scholars. |
| 0:34.7 | Historian Alison Frank Johnson says the action threatens their academic mission. |
| 0:39.2 | We're talking here about students who've worked their whole lives to be able to attend a college of |
| 0:43.8 | this caliber, and now they don't know if they can continue their educations. We're also talking |
| 0:48.6 | about graduate students who are working in labs to cure cancer. Harvard already has a pending lawsuit against the administration, |
| 0:56.3 | accusing it of government overreach. |
| 0:58.4 | For NPR News, I'm Kirk Carrapeza in Boston. |
| 1:01.1 | An independent federal watchdog agency has ruled the Trump administration has violated the law |
| 1:06.4 | by improperly freezing funds for an electric vehicle program. |
| 1:13.6 | An issue is the impoundment control act. |
| 1:19.3 | And Pierce Chris Arnold reports this stops a president from withholding funds that are already approved by Congress. The government accountability office has at least 39 investigations into possible |
| 1:25.4 | violations of the act by the Trump administration. This one |
| 1:29.0 | involves $5 billion already allocated to build electric vehicle charging stations across the |
| 1:34.5 | country. The GAO finds that the administration has been improperly freezing the money and must |
| 1:40.1 | continue to carry out the program. The GAO also has the power to file a lawsuit. There are |
| 1:46.1 | already other lawsuits underway over the allegedly illegal freezing of such funds. The White |
| 1:52.1 | House has argued that the impoundment control act is unconstitutional, but GAO points out that the |
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