The Government Supervision and Reform Council Committee is to investigate how Harvard University It uses taxpayer money as the school faces auditing civil rights cases such as anti -Semitism.
Committee Chairman James Kumer The President of the Republican Command in the House of Representatives, Elise Stefanick, sent a letter to the President of the University, Dr. Alan M. Garper, Thursday afternoon, after the Trump administration stopped $ 2.2 billion in financing for school. The Ministry of Internal Security also cancels $ 2.7 million from grants, and the Tax Authority is an end to the university’s tax exemption.
The aim is to determine whether the legislation is necessary to ensure that higher education institutions that receive federal financial assistance are no longer able to violate the law while benefiting from the generosity of the American people. “
The view of drones shows anti -Israel demonstrators voluntarily worshiping their camp at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 14, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder/TPX photos today)
The committee requests “documents and communications” to investigate the case.
“On April 11, 2025, officials from the Public Services Department, the US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services, wrote, and the US Department of Education wrote a proposed settlement agreement that seeks to return Harvard to comply with civil rights laws,” the letter said.
“Instead of working with the government, I wrote to the Harvard University community, claiming that the efforts made to comply with the obligations of the Civil Civil Rights Law will surrender its independence or give up its constitutional rights,” continues.
The letter added: “Even with Harvard’s willingness to reject all federal financial assistance so that he can avoid compliance with the sixth law of the 1964 Civil Rights Law, Harvard received huge sums from foreign sources, including from authoritarian governments.”
Harvard will not comply with Trump’s officials, amid threats to cut off federal financing
Representative James Kumler, R. Ken, Chairman of the House of Representatives Control and Accountability Committee, during a hearing in Washington, DC, July 22, 2024. (Tierney L. Cross/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
About the possibility of ending the university federal government Tax exemption stateThe University told Fox News on Thursday that it was “no legal basis” to do so.
A spokesman said: “The government has given a long -time universities for a period of taxes to support its educational mission. Tax exemption means that more of every dollar can go towards scholarships for students, saving life, life -enhanced medical research and technological progress that drives economic growth,” a spokesman said.
President Donald Trump He was a voice critic of Harvard, saying that his employment was “almost all wake up.”
The Trump administration announced that it freezes more than two billion dollars of scholarships and contracts after Harvard University said it will not comply with federal demands regarding anti -Semitism. (Reuters/Nicholas Fossi)
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Trump recently published: “Harvard is a joke, knows hatred and stupidity, and you should not receive federal money.”
Entity of Semitism in American universities It became a great focus after the anti -Israel protests hit the point of collapse in the wake of Hamas attacks on October 7.
Harvard University He said he is reviewing the message about the investigation of censorship.
“Harvard University reviews the committee’s inquiry, which-such as the SDMINISTRATRATRATIONTIONTIONTIONARADERATIONARAD Decision of $ 2.2 billion of grants and $ 60 million in contracts, and it seems that he is scrutinized by foreign students visas, and considering them to cancel its independence at Harvard University, and clarify, which is the following,
“Harvard University continues to comply with the law, and we have taken great steps in combating anti -Semitism in our university campus, enhancing our policies, disciplining those who violate our policies, encouraging civil discourse and encouraging open and respected dialogue.
“However, compliance with the demands of the federal government, which has a largely related to anti -Semitism, would undermine our rights under the first amendment and legal procedures due under the sixth address and erosion of academic freedom. These demands include changing the structure of the ruling at Harvard University,” reduces the requirements.
