Trump administration tries to drag up to 100 million in Harvard Fund

As part of the War of the White House with the oldest university in America, the Trump administration directs US federal agencies to review the grants of Harvard University to terminate or revisit money.

A senior official of the White House said that the government is planning to broadcast the letter to the Government Services Administration (GSA) agencies to identify Harvard agreements as “canceled or redirected elsewhere.”

The administration can review about 30 contracts, about 30 contracts worth M 100m (£ 74m) as a whole. It has already frozen 65 2.65 billion in the federal grant and has tried to withdraw the ability of Harvard to enroll international students.

Harvard University did not respond immediately.

On its website, the university states that “sophisticated medical, scientific and technical research” has historically supported the “federal government and other units.”

The university’s website, which stated the research on cancer, heart disease, infectious diseases and obesity, warned that “without federal funding, the work will be halted to the middle.”

The White House does not automatically withdraw money, but the Harvard begins a review of the money from the Federal government to determine if the money is crucial in the eyes of the administration.

The GSA “Ending at convenience and determines that each agreement has failed to meet its standards”, and considers to reset that money elsewhere.

The draft of the letter is accused of being involved in Harvard discrimination and antismitism.

University students and faculty have criticized the Trump administration’s penalties against Harvard. On Tuesday evening, some dozen protests were gathered.

“The administration is very irrelevant that these policies somehow resolve antismitism,” said Jacob Miller, a student and former head of the Jewish social center of campus, said.

An administrative official told BBC that potential reductions would not affect hospitals associated with Harvard University.

And if the federal grant is considered crucial for the functions of a particular agency, the agency can make a case to protect money.

The White House and Harvard have been arrested in political, legal and economic war – have dramatically increased its right in the last two months.

This is not the first time the administration is trying to block Harvard money. In April, the The White House threatened the university’s tax exemption status and shut down 2 2.2 billion in the federal fund, which prompted the lawsuit. A month later, it cuts another Million 450 million grant.

Last week, the Trump administration also tried to withdraw Harvard’s ability to enroll international students or host foreign researchersMass confusion among thousands of influential students and inspire another lawsuit from Harvard. The judge then issued a A temporary restricted order to prevent this move.

Before breaking the news about the recent effort of the cuts, Harvard University President Alan Garber told NPR on Tuesday morning: “Why should the research fund be cut?

“Of course, it hurts Harvard, but it hurts the country because after all, research funding is not a gift.

“Research fund is given to universities and other research institutions that the federal government is designated as a high priority function.

“The work they want to do. They are paying to run that job.”

A department struck by a funding reduction is a syncler lab of the Harvard Medical School, which attempts to find interventions for aging and interventions for all Zimer’s disease, multiple sclerosis, cancer, infertility, immune disorders and more.

“We are aiming to understand and reverse aging underlying procedures to develop treatment for wide range of diseases and tissue injuries,” the founder of the lab, Anti -Old Genetist David Sinklare, told BBC via email.

Under the Trump administration, the laboratory lost a national health grants, and researcher Kelly Rich lost his career grant to study age reverse to combat motor diseases. The White House’s move to withdraw the ability of Harvard to host international researchers has affected six people – half of the laboratory staff.

“The loss of money stops ongoing experiments that cannot be resumed, but also risks laboratory operations and contributions of international scholars that are integral to the wealth of the US,” Syncler said.

Adam Nguyen, founder of Harvard Alumni and Admission Admission Admission Admission Consultation, said that the “huge negative route” effect will fall on the graduate and PhD students. He said the US and foreign education experts rely on outside money for their research.

“If you have a cut, they are out of work,” Mr. Nguyen said. “It’s so simple. There is no money to fund their research. You are talking about cuts, lay-offs and immediate stop-work orders for many graduate students.”