The US president has today threatened to remove from his significant tax advantages, the day after the refusal of the high -level university to comply with his claims.
“Harvard may have to lose the tax exemption status and be taxed as a political entity if it continues to defend political, ideological and inspired by and supporting terrorism” madness “,” the US president wrote in the midst of social media.
The Ministry of Education has already been frozen yesterday with many years of federal grants of $ 2.2 billion to the Foundation.
The private university, located near Boston, has a huge fortune of more than $ 50 billion and benefits from an exemption from federal tax authorities as well as from the state of Massachusetts.
Harvard, like other US universities, has been the theater of student mobilizations against the war in Israel in Gaza and was targeted by the White House after returning to Donald Trump’s power.
The Republican accuses Harvard and other institutions of allowing the well -being of anti -Semitism in their premises, and his government has asked them to implement a number of measures, including a “control” of students’ views and teaching staff, otherwise the federal state will cut them off.
Harvard, contrary to New York Columbia University, refused to comply with these claims.
In a letter to students and professors, Alan Garber University president assured yesterday that Harvard would not abandon “his independence, nor the rights guaranteed by the Constitution”.
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