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  • Since Donald Trump took office in January, a lot has happened.

  • The White House budget office ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans.

  • The impact of the Trump administration's tariffs is already being felt in President Trump's efforts to radically remake the federal government.

  • The NPR Politics Podcast covers it all.

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  • Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Korva Coleman.

  • The Trump administration has pulled more than $2 billion of federal funding from Harvard University.

  • The university has refused to comply with several Trump administration demands.

  • Some of these demands include getting rid of all DEI programs and tracking students who quote support terrorism or anti-Semitism.

  • Harvard says no government, no matter which party is in power,

  • should dictate what private universities can teach or whom they can admit or hire.

  • NPR's Janaki Mehta reports Harvard says it will lose funding for programs that benefit all Americans.

  • Harvard actually updated the homepage of its website to reflect how federal dollars support research they do.

  • They've listed research on treatments for several forms of cancer, heart disease, organs and transplantation,

  • and they say federal funding is the university's largest source of support for what Harvard calls cutting-edge groundbreaking research.

  • NPR's Janaki Mehta reporting.

  • Another pro-Palestinian protester has been detained by federal immigration officials.

  • Mohsen Mahdawi was an organizer at Columbia University's protests last year.

  • NPR's Jasmine Gar's reports he was detained yesterday at an immigration office in Vermont after arriving for a citizenship test.