Trump: $3B more in grants could be taken from Harvard University

President Donald Trump says he's considering revoking another $3 billion in grant funding from Harvard University, to be distributed to U.S. trade schools instead.

It would more than double the amount of funding the federal government has taken away from Harvard, which it's investigating over allegations of antisemitism on campus. Trump made the statement on his social media platform, Truth Social, Monday morning.

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Amid his administration's feud with Harvard University, President Donald Trump spoke about his rationale for focusing on its foreign students, suggesting that it enrolls too many students from abroad.

He also referred to the Department of Homeland Security's so-far unsuccessful attempts at obtaining extensive information about Harvard's foreign students, which has led to the department's ban on Harvard enrolling foreign students. (A judge quickly blocked it, pending court proceedings, when Harvard filed suit.)

"Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason! The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) - But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!" Trump said in another post.

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He said the information from the lists would help the administration determine "how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country."

Trump didn't share what further federal funding could be taken from Harvard. He described the potential windfall for trade schools as "a great investment ... for the USA, and so badly needed!!!"

Harvard has routinely described the allegations of antisemitism as untrue, and the actions taken by the government, including its previous revocation of $2.2 billion in grants, as unlawful.

"We have seen Harvard subject to demand letter after demand letter after demand letter with little law cited, fewer facts relied upon," Harvard Kennedy School professor Cornell William Brooks told NBC10 Boston last week.

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A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's attempt to prevent foreign students from being enrolled at Harvard hours after the university filed a lawsuit over the move. Here's what's at stake, and how students and others on campus are processing the news.

Trump spoke more about Harvard on Sunday as he left his estate in New Jersey to return to Washington, criticizing how many foreign students attend the university.

"I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students," he told reporters, but said the current percentage is "too much, because we have Americans that want to go there and other places, and they can't go there."