Republicans in the United States Congress announced an investigation into Harvard University on Thursday, April 17, to the battery to breach the Civil Rights Law in an escalation of the attacks of President Donald Trump against elite institutions. Legislators wrote to the establishment of world-renowned education and research that demanded documents on their hiring practices, diversity programs and the protests of the Pro-Palestinian campus last year.
The letter, signed by the president of the Chamber’s Supervision Committee, James Eat and the president’s leadership president, Elise Stefanik, arrived with Trump in search of unprecedented control levels on the oldest and rich university in the country. Eating and Stefanik punished the president of Harvard, Alan Garber, for rejecting the demands for supervision by the White House, which has canceled $ 2.2 billion in funds and threatened more reprisals. “It doesn’t matter how their behavior is entitled, no institution has the right to violate the law,” they told Garber.
Trump, furious in Harvard for rejecting the supervision of his admissions, hiring practices and political inclination, told journalists that university’s behavior had been “horrible.” The president, who is in charge of all aspects of the federal government, said that “was not involved” in his fight with Harvard but had “read about it.” “I think what they did was a misfortune,” Trump told White House journalists. “Obviously they are anti -Semitic and all sauces, they begin to deepen.”
Harvard is only the last of a series of best universities and other institutions in the sights of the administration. But while the University of Columbia in New York took less demand demands, Harvard flatly rejected the pressure, saying that he would not “negotiate on his independence or constitutional rights.” Trump said Harvard should lose his government research contracts and the tax exemption state, while administration officials threatened to prohibit the school from admitting foreigners, who represent more than a quarter of the student body.
Trump has also attacked the universities of Brown, Cornell, Northwestern, Pennsylvania and Princeton, threatening each one with freezing between $ 175 million and $ 1 billion, according to the US media. Republicans have said that the campaign against universities is an answer to what they call unbridled anti -Semitism, after divisive protests against the Israel War in Gaza that swept the campus last year. Columbia, an epicenter of activism, agreed last month supervision or its Department of Studies of the Middle East after being threatened with a loss or $ 400 million in federal funds.
Harvard staff and students gathered against the Trump administration in a protest of the Thorsday Campus with the aim of encouraging university leadership to celebrate the line, said research partner Avi Steinberg. “They are real because Harvard to fulfill their promises to their students and their faculty to protect each student on the campus, to protect the faculty and freedom of special expression,” he said.
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