Trump threatens Harvard's tax status after $2B funding freeze | LiveNOW from FOX

After Harvard University refused the Trump administration’s demands to limit activism on campus, the federal government said it would freeze more than $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to the Ivy League school.

President Donald Trump’s administration has put funding on hold for a number of elite U.S. colleges. Most of the schools are in the Ivy League.

Trump's administration has normalized the withholding of federal money to pressure major academic institutions to comply with the president's political agenda and to influence campus policy. The administration has argued universities allowed antisemitism to go unchecked at campus protests last year against Israel's war in Gaza.

Trump's administration, in a letter to Harvard on Friday, called for broad government and leadership reforms at the university, as well as changes to its admissions policies. It also demanded the university audit views of diversity on campus, and stop recognizing some student clubs.

The U.S. government said almost $9 billion in grants and contracts in total were at risk if Harvard did not comply.

On Monday, Harvard President Alan Garber said the university would not bend to the government's demands. Within hours, the federal government froze billions in Harvard's federal funding.

In a Truth Social post on Tuesday, President Trump threatened the school's tax-exempt status, saying "Perhaps Harvard should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological, and terrorist inspired/supporting “Sickness?” Remember, Tax Exempt Status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!"

Politico's Irie Sentner joins LiveNOW's Andrew Craft to discuss.

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