Trump, Harvard and research grants
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Baller Alert on MSNTrump Cuts $2.2 Billion Harvard Funding — Including Lifesaving Cancer Research — Over Campus Protests and Race ClaimsTrump’s administration made a move, cutting $2.2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard, including funding for critical cancer research projects. The decision follows growing tensions over campus anti-Semitism,
StandWithUs Saidoff Legal Department Director Yael Lerman said the Trump administration is right to end grant funding to Harvard, noting its lackluster handling of antisemitism.
A Rhode Island federal judge who blocked President Trump’s sweeping freeze on federal assistance earlier this year has been slapped with a complaint from a conservative legal group alleging that he could benefit from his decision.
Mass layoffs: A federal judge in California called for a two-week pause in the Trump administration’s mass layoff plans, barring two dozen agencies from moving forward with the largest phase of the president’s downsizing efforts, which the judge said was illegal without Congress’s authorization. Read more ›