The Trump administration called for Harvard University to apologize on Tuesday and questioned the objective of federal funding after He froze $ 2.2 billion In multi -year subsidies at school on Monday.
The press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, knew the action of administration as an effort to slow anti -Semitism on university campuses. But the administration also requires that the university eliminates its programs of diversity, equity and inclusion, to prohibit masks during campus demonstrations and to ensure hiring practices based on merit.
Pressed on President Donald Trump threat Earlier Tuesday to tax Harvard as a political entity and delete its tax exemption status, Leavitt postponed the questions to the Internal Revenue Service. But she largely said that the University should apologize.
Trump, Leavitt said: “Want to see Harvard apologize, and Harvard should apologize for the blatant anti -Semitism that took place on their university campus against American Jewish students.”
Leavitt underlined the remarks during a conference of the Congress of the former president of the University, Claudine Gay, who declared that the appeal to the genocide of the Jews “can” violate the rules of intimidation and harassment of Harvard “according to the context”. Gay has excuse For remarks.
Leavitt also stressed what she described as Harvard’s failure to discipline students involved in a campus camp and the lessons’ disruption. “The president thinks that Harvard should apologize to his American Jewish students for having allowed such a blatant behavior,” said Leavitt.
She also reiterated questions on the future of university federal financing, a struggle that the Trump administration clearly thinks is a winning political problem.
“I think that the president also folds a good question: more than $ 2 billion at the door at Harvard when they have more than $ 50 billion-why do American taxpayers subsidize a university that already has billions of dollars from the bank,” she certainly ended up with a place where serious anti-Semitism exists. ”
Find out more about Harvard’s financing freeze in the video below: