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President Donald Trump warned Harvard University on Tuesday it could lose its tax-exempt status after it refused to agree to a list of White House demands school administrators said blurred the lines of academic freedom—but it’s unclear whether he would have any power over that.
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Trump made the suggestion Tuesday on Truth Social, writing that “tax exempt status is totally contingent on acting in the PUBLIC INTEREST!”
The warning comes after the Trump administration on Monday froze $2.2 billion in federal funding for the school when it refused to accept an agreement with the White House anti-semitism task force that investigated schools’ handling of pro-Palestinian protests on their campuses.
The agreement “makes clear the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner,” Harvard President Alan Garber wrote on the school’s website, adding “the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the ‘intellectual conditions’ at Harvard.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.