From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

The federal government cuts off visas for foreign students at Harvard. Another escalation of President

Trump's spitting match with the Ivy League University, which has already sued and gotten a

temporary victory from a federal judge.

Meantime, the U.S. Supreme Court splits four-four on religious charter schools while signaling

an end to so-called independent federal agencies. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues,

columnist Alicia Finley, and editorial board member Colin Levy. President Trump wants to shake up higher

education, and he's right that at least some of these elite schools didn't do enough to protect

Jewish students on their campuses from harassment and intimidation amid recent anti-Israel protests.

But his dispute with Harvard seems to have turned into a contest of wills, first withdrawing billions in federal grants,

resulting in a lawsuit from Harvard. Now, the latest is a move by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstie Noem,

ordering the termination of Harvard's participation in the student and exchange visitor program.

According to a DHS press release on Thursday, this means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign

students, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status, unquote.

Here is President Trump in the Oval Office this afternoon asked about his feud with Harvard.

Billions of dollars has been paid to Harvard.

How ridiculous is that?

Billions.

And they have $52 billion as an endowment.

They have $52 billion. And this country is paying billions and billions of dollars and then give student loans and they have to pay back the loans. So Harvard's going to have to change its ways.

Alicia, what do you make of this latest move by the Trump administration?

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