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The Trump administration has frozen $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard University.
This after Harvard refused to change its policies and programs as a condition
for receiving $9 billion in federal funding.
NPR's Janaki Mehta has the story.
The Trump administration sent Harvard a list of demands that range from ordering the university to eliminate diversity,
equity, and inclusion programs to screening international students for what it considers supporting terrorism.
The university's president said, quote, no government, regardless of which party is in power,
should dictate what private universities can teach,
whom they can admit and hire in which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.
The White House told NPR, quote,
President Trump is working to make higher education great again by ending unchecked anti-Semitism and ensuring federal taxpayer dollars do not fund Harvard's support of racial discrimination.
Janaki Mehta, NPR News.