The Trump administration ends with an additional $ 450 million grants to Harvard University

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The Donald Trump administration has completed an additional amount of $ 450 million from the Harvard Scholarships on the occasion of an additional escalation in the American President’s attack on the Elite University.

The United States government said on Tuesday that Harvard’s failure to “confront discrimination in the prevalent race and the anti -Semitic harassment of which was afflicted with its university campus” led to the end of eight federal agencies about $ 450 million in granting to the university. This is in addition to 2.2 billion dollars was cut last week.

The decision intensifies the battle between Harvard and Trump, who said earlier this month that he would make the university to warrant Tax exemption state. The administration also recently said that Harvard is no longer eligible to obtain granting new federal government research.

Government Labor Squad to combat anti -Semitism, which was created earlier this year after an executive order from TrumpHe said in a statement on Tuesday that Harvard’s leaders “had lost the school’s demand to support taxpayers.”

Harvard University did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This is a developing story