{"id":3959,"date":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3959"},"modified":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T03:04:35","slug":"trump-ramps-up-conflict-against-defiant-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3959","title":{"rendered":"Trump ramps up conflict against defiant Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>President Donald Trump escalated his war against elite US universities Tuesday with a threat to strip Harvard&#8217;s tax-exempt status if the country&#8217;s most famous educational establishment refuses to submit to wide-ranging government oversight.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard stands out for defying Trump, in contrast to several other universities and a string of powerful law firms that have folded under intense pressure from the White House in its crackdown on American institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The threat of a major tax bill comes after Harvard saw $2.2 billion in federal funding frozen on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said non-profit Harvard &#8220;should lose its Tax Exempt Status and be Taxed as a Political Entity&#8221; if it does not submit to his demands for the college to change the way it runs itself, including selection of students and authority for professors.<\/p>\n<p>Tax-exempt status is &#8220;totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST,&#8221; he added in the post on his Truth Social network.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and his White House team have justified their pressure campaign on universities as a reaction to what they say is uncontrolled anti-Semitism and support for the Palestinian militant group Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>Trump &#8220;wants to see Harvard apologize. And Harvard should apologize,&#8221; Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-Semitism allegations are based on controversy at protests against Israel&#8217;s war in Gaza that swept across campuses last year.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia University in New York &#8212; an epicenter of the protests \u2014 stood down last month and agreed to oversight of its Middle Eastern department after being threatened with a loss of $400 million in federal funds. AFP<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump escalated his war against elite US universities Tuesday with a threat to strip Harvard&#8217;s tax-exempt status if the country&#8217;s most famous educational establishment refuses to submit to wide-ranging government oversight. Harvard stands out for defying Trump, in contrast to several other universities and a string of powerful law firms that have folded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}