The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in grants for Harvard

The US Department of Education announced the freezing of grants for Harvard University in the amount of $ 2.2 billion due to the refusal of the educational institution to comply with the instructions of President Donald Trump. This was announced on April 14 by the Department's task force on combating anti-Semitism.

"Today's statement from Harvard confirms the alarming dependency mindset inherent in our country's most prestigious universities and colleges — that federal investments are not accompanied by responsibility to comply with civil rights laws," the Reuters news agency quoted a fragment of the statement.

It is specified that a total of $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts for Harvard were frozen.

The instructions not fulfilled by the university administration included the closure of programs to ensure "diversity, equality and inclusivity" within the walls of the educational institution.

On March 29, the media reported on the dismissals of Yale and Harvard employees under pressure from Trump. Higher education institutions are forced to say goodbye to employees because of the government's demand to combat anti-Semitism. Otherwise, they are threatened with being deprived of federal funding. Also earlier, the Harvard School of Public Health suspended its partnership with Birzeit University in the West Bank.