Trump administration to freeze €1.9bn in grants to Harvard University

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Trump administration to freeze €1.9bn in grants to Harvard University  The move came shortly after the Ivy League institution refused to accept a sweep of   demands made by the federal government.   READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/15/trump-administration-to-freeze-22bn-in-grants-to-harvard-university  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00The US government has frozen over $2 billion in funding for Harvard University.

00:05It follows Harvard's refusal to meet Trump administration demands to curb campus activism.

00:12This is the seventh time the government has withheld funds from a major university, most

00:16of them being Ivy League schools, pressuring them to comply with its political agenda.

00:21Demands include governance reforms, changes to admission policies, auditing views of diversity

00:26on campus and not recognizing certain student groups.

00:30To support its view, the administration has cited concerns over anti-Semitism during last

00:35year's pro-Palestine protests on university campuses.

00:39But Harvard President Alan Garber has rejected its demands and said the university will not

00:43surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.

00:47The government announced the funding freeze shortly afterwards.

00:50Meanwhile, Washington has launched investigations and detained and deported a number of foreign

00:56students in relation to pro-Palestinian protests.

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