Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ended $2.7 million in grants to Harvard University and threatened to revoke its ability to enroll foreign students.
Announcing the move in a news release, DHS said the university is “unfit to be entrusted with taxpayer dollars.”
Harvard must also provide records on foreign student visa holders’ activities by April 30 or face the immediate revocation of its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification.
“With a $53.2 billion endowment, Harvard can fund its own chaos—DHS won’t,” the department explained. “And if Harvard cannot verify it is in full compliance with its reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege of enrolling foreign students.”
“Harvard bending the knee to antisemitism — driven by its spineless leadership — fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security,” Noem said. “With anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard’s position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory. America demands more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars.”
The canceled grants include a $800,303 Implementation Science for Targeted Violence Prevention that “branded conservatives as far-right dissidents in a shockingly skewed study,” DHS said, as well as a $1,934,902 Blue Campaign Program Evaluation and Violence Advisement grant that “funded Harvard’s public health propaganda.”
Harvard University announced this week that it will not comply with orders from the Trump administration to reform its campus policies.
“No government—regardless of which party is in power—should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” Harvard University President Alan Garber said.
President Trump has declared that Harvard “should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity” due to its activism.
