{"id":1242,"date":"2025-04-17T01:16:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T01:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=1242"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:33:07","slug":"noem-announces-cancellation-of-2-7-million-in-grants-to-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/noem-announces-cancellation-of-2-7-million-in-grants-to-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Noem announces cancellation of $2.7 million in grants to Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday announced the cancellation<\/a> of more than $2.7 million in grants to Harvard University amid tensions between the school and the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

The Department of Homeland Security said in a Wednesday press release that Noem unveiled the discontinuation of two grants from the department to Harvard worth more than $2.7 million. The department also noted in the press release that Noem requested \u201cdetailed records on Harvard\u2019s foreign student visa holders\u2019 illegal and violent activities\u201d in a letter.<\/p>\n

\u201cHarvard bending the knee to antisemitism \u2014 driven by its spineless leadership \u2014 fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security,\u201d Noem said in the release. <\/p>\n

\u201cWith anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard\u2019s position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory. America demands more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Last week, the Trump administration demanded Harvard change multiple<\/a> policies \u2014 including those regarding protesting and diversity, equity and inclusion programs \u2014 in order to retain its federal funding<\/a>. The school shot down the demands Monday<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo government \u2014 regardless of which party is in power \u2014 should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,\u201d Harvard President Alan Garber said in a message to the university\u2019s community Monday.<\/p>\n

The Trump administration said later Monday that around $2.2 billion in multiyear grants was going to be frozen to Harvard in the wake of the school\u2019s rejection of the demands<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Noem’s department said in its press release that one of the grants, worth $800,303, \u201cbranded conservatives as far-right dissidents in a shockingly skewed study\u201d and the other, worth $1,934,902, \u201cfunded Harvard\u2019s public health propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth undermine America\u2019s values and security,\u201d the press release continued.<\/p>\n

In a statement emailed to The Hill late Wednesday, a Harvard spokesperson said the school was \u201caware of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s letter regarding grant cancellations and scrutiny of foreign student visas, which\u2014like the Administration\u2019s announcement of the freeze of $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts, and reports of the revocation of Harvard\u2019s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status\u2014follows on the heels of our statement that Harvard will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to stand by that statement. We will continue to comply with the law and expect the Administration to do the same. Harvard values the rule of law and expects all members of our community to comply with University policies and applicable legal standards,\u201d the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n

Updated at 10:25 p.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Wednesday announced the cancellation of more than $2.7 million in grants to Harvard University amid tensions between the school and the Trump administration. The Department of Homeland Security said in a Wednesday press release that Noem unveiled the discontinuation of two grants from the department to Harvard worth more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1243,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1242\/revisions\/1243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}