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U.S. campuses protest Trump Administration’s threats to university tax-exempt status
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4/18/2025
Students, faculty, and staff protested across U.S. campuses on Thursday (April 17) against the Trump administration’s attacks on universities, including threats to revoke tax-exempt status from institutions like Harvard.
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Students, faculty, and staff across U.S. campuses staged protests on Thursday in
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response to the Trump administration's efforts to undermine American universities.
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Demonstrations at American University in Washington, D.C., and Northwestern University in Illinois
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reflected growing concern as President Donald Trump questioned whether institutions, like Harvard,
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still deserve their tax-exempt status.
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We have students who are fearful that if we say the words protest in a group chat that
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they're going to end up having their visas revoked, that they're going to have their
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citizenship revoked.
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And so it's a very stressful time for students, especially international students, and they
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deserve to be as civically engaged as I'm able to.
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And so that's really been like a major concern for me, is that these students don't have
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equal access to civic engagement.
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Watching Harvard, Columbia, and other Ivy League institutions is a warning shot.
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This is the playbook of the Trump administration.
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American universities on the list of 60 that were targeted by a letter from the Department
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of Justice back at the beginning of March.
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So we look around and we say, this is what's coming.
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We know what's coming.
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There's absolutely no question.
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Probably freezing of federal funds.
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The administration has repeatedly criticized universities over their handling of pro-Palestinian
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protests, which intensified across campuses from Columbia in New York to UC Berkeley in California
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after the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel and the subsequent Israeli strikes on Gaza.
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Trump has called the protests anti-American and anti-Semitic, accusing universities of promoting
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Marxism and radical leftist ideologies.
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On Thursday, he called Harvard, which he has attacked multiple times this week, a disgrace,
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and suggested that other universities may also face scrutiny.
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When asked about reports that the IRS was reviewing Harvard's tax-exempt status, Trump said he was
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unsure if a final decision had been made, but confirmed other institutions were also under
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review.
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I'm leaving today, I'm going to make a mess of it across the USA.
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