Harvard, Trump Administration Face Off in Court Over Research Funding

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  Harvard and the Trump administration face off in court.

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  Harvard University and the Trump administration faced off in court today.

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  In a federal courtroom in Boston,

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  the Ivy League school argued that the government had no basis to cut more than $2 billion of its research funding.

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  Higher education reporter Sarah Randazzo is here to tell us more.

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  Sarah, what are both sides saying in this case?

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  Harvard filed this lawsuit a couple months ago back when the Trump administration summarily cut about 2.2 billion dollars of research funding and the government has said it was because of concerns by anti-semitism and that essentially Harvard was no longer in line with government priorities and so it had the right to cut these funds.

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  Harvard says that that was done improperly and they have two real main buckets of arguments.

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  The first is a First Amendment case.

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  They say the government made all these demands on us which is something Trump administration did.

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  They said, Harvard, we want to have control over your faculty,

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