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🗓️ 16 April 2025
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On Monday, the Trump administration announced that it will freeze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University after the school refused to comply with a list of requirements it said were unlawful. In a joint letter dated April 11, the General Services Administration, Department of Education (ED) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) demanded that Harvard adopt its suggested reforms in order to maintain its funding. Among the required changes, the administration ordered Harvard to discontinue DEI programs, regulate specific academic departments, screen international students, and submit to government audits. Harvard rejected the government’s terms, calling its demands an invasion of “university freedoms.” Hours later, the Trump administration announced its decision to freeze Harvard’s federal funding.
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1:08.8 | this is Tangle. This is Tangle. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle |
1:24.2 | podcast, a place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
1:29.6 | I'm your host, Isaac Stahl, and today is Wednesday, April 16th, and we are covering the |
1:35.2 | standoff between President Donald Trump and Harvard. |
1:39.8 | Indicative, I think, of a lot of the kind of funding threats coming from the Trump administration |
1:44.7 | to many universities and a good deal what's been going on in that space. |
1:49.6 | So we're going to break down exactly what happened and then give a breakdown of the left |
1:54.9 | and the right. |
1:55.5 | And then we have a special my take today, which I'll explain in a little bit. |
2:01.3 | Before we jump at any of that, though, I do have to issue a quick correction. |
2:05.1 | In Monday's numbers section, we included a bullet stating that 238 non-citizens and |
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