The Trump administration is preparing to terminate approximately $100 million in federal contracts with Harvard University, in what marks the latest escalation in an increasingly contentious standoff between the White House and one of the nation's most prestigious academic institutions.
Two senior administration officials confirmed to CNN that a directive will be issued Tuesday, instructing federal agencies to identify and, where possible, cancel or redirect existing contracts with Harvard. The General Services Administration (GSA) will send a formal notice to agencies asking them to find alternative vendors for contracts currently held by the university.
The move, first reported by The New York Times, adds to a mounting campaign by the Trump administration targeting U.S. colleges and universities it accuses of promoting what it calls a 바카라liberal woke agenda.바카라 Harvard has become a central focus of that effort, repeatedly clashing with the administration over demands seen as ideologically driven.
Among those demands: that the university provide full disciplinary records for foreign students, and allow federal audits to assess whether it has sufficiently diversified political viewpoints on campus. Harvard has largely refused, citing academic independence and constitutional protections.
바카라The University will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,바카라 Harvard President Alan Garber wrote in a public statement last month.
The $100 million in threatened contract cancellations is part of a broader financial offensive. In recent months, the administration has frozen or cut a total of $2.65 billion in federal grants and contracts to Harvard. Most recently, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the university바카라s ability to enroll international students through the Student and Exchange Visitor Program바카라a move currently paused by a federal judge pending a court hearing.
Harvard filed a lawsuit against the administration last month over the freeze of $2.2 billion in federal research and education funding. An additional $450 million in funding has since been withheld.
Now, the administration is also threatening to revoke Harvard바카라s tax-exempt status and slash up to $3 billion more in federal grants, unless the university complies with government demands.
Legal experts say the increasingly aggressive actions raise constitutional concerns and are likely to face prolonged court challenges.
The developments underscore how deeply political divisions have infiltrated the relationship between the federal government and U.S. higher education, with implications that could reverberate across the academic world.
