Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey said on Sunday that Donald TrumpThe attacks of Harvard University And other schools have prejudicial training effects, with the closure of research laboratories and cuts in college -related hospitals.
During an interview on Face The Nation of CBS, the Democratic Governor said that the effects on Harvard harmed “American competitiveness” because a number of researchers leave the United States for opportunities in other countries. After decades of investment in science and innovation, she said: “Intellectual assets are given.”
During last week, the American president cut Billions of dollars at Harvard in federal funds, after university refused to concede to a certain number of requests from the administration. Trump too called upon to revoke its tax exemption statusA potentially illegal decision, against the world renowned college in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Among the moves against the colleges, Healey said: “It’s bad for patients, it’s bad for science, and it’s really bad for American competitiveness. There is no way that a state can compensate for federal funding cuts.”
She added: “I was in a recently hospital, Boston Children’s, where some of the most sick children in the country receive care. Cups for children in Boston and other hospitals are the direct result of Donald Trump’s actions because they are part of a university hospital system.
“These cuts in universities have significant training effects, which leads to dismissals of scientists and doctors, and clinical trials for cancer treatments have been closed.
“As a governor, I want Massachusetts and America to hover. What Donald Trump does is essentially inviting other countries, such as China, to take our scientists and researchers. It is terrible, especially given what he did to the economy. I work hard every day to reduce costs in my condition, reduce taxes and build more accommodation, while Donald Trump makes life more expensive and more difficult for all of us. »»
Since Trump took office, his administration has deployed an “anti -Semitism working group” to demand various changes in policy in different universities in the country.
Columbia University, one of the first institutions targeted by the working group, quickly Caculadé to requests from the Trump administration To restore $ 400 million in federal funding. Some of the measures that Columbia conceded to include the ban on facial masks on the campus, allowing security agents to stop people and put control of the Middle East department under a new main vice-proprovost.
The former president of the University of Columbia, Lee Bollinger, said on Sunday that attacks by the Trump administration against university establishments were a significant attack on the rights of the first amendment.
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“This is a kind of armament of government power,” said Bolinger on CNN, adding that “it seems to be an intimidation campaign”.
“This is a kind of armament of government power,” he said.
Earlier this month, the federal government sent Harvard two distinct letters with specific requests. After the university publicly rejected these requests, the administration quickly frozen nearly $ 2.3 billion in federal funding.
The conflict between the administration and the Elite University took a strange turning point on Friday, the New York Times reporting that a letter of April 11 from the administration with additional requests – which degenerated the confrontation – was “unauthorized”. The university challenged that the letter was “unauthorized”, saying that the federal government has “doubled” on its offensive.