US
President Donald Trump has vowed to prevail in his clash with Harvard
University as he again threatened to take away billions in funding from
one of the world's top universities.
Posting
on Truth Social on Monday, local time, Mr Trump declared that his
administration would remove $US3 billion ($4.6 billion) of previously
awarded grant money from the Ivy League institution.
"I
am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a
very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our
land," he said, without giving details, in one of a flurry of posts.
He
also brought up the issue of removing foreign students from Harvard — a
key source of enrolment and tuition money for the oldest university in
the US — saying he is waiting for Harvard to provide a list of these
students.
Mr Trump said he
wants this list "so that we can determine, after a ridiculous
expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalised lunatics,
troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country".
He added: "But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!"
The
Trump administration moved last week to block Harvard from enrolling
foreign students, but on Friday a judge suspended the order pending a
hearing this week.
Mr Trump is
furious at Harvard — which has produced 162 Nobel prize winners — for
rejecting Washington's oversight on admissions and hiring amid his
claims the school is a hotbed of antisemitism and "woke" liberal
ideology.
The president is
attacking universities and other sources of what he sees as left-leaning
power in the country like the media as he tries to exert tight,
unprecedented presidential control over life in America.
In
his fight with Harvard, Mr Trump has threatened to put $US9 billion of
government funding under review, then went on to freeze a first tranche
of $US2.2 billion of grants and $US60 million of official contracts.
The administration has also targeted a Harvard Medical School researcher for deportation.
AFP
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