Hundreds at Harvard protesting Trump’s funding cuts, policy demands

Hundreds of students and professors at Harvard are protesting President Trump s revocation of federal funding and his demands of the school With seniors set to graduate Thursday the federal establishment s current actions introduced a new level of uncertainty over what campus will be like at the start of next semester A crowd gathered on campus Tuesday night to protest the latest actions by Trump against the university on Tuesday he directed governing body agencies to cancel all contracts with Harvard effectively ending the regime s longstanding business relationship with the nation s oldest university Other people in the country are seeing the pressure that we re under and it s very scary announced Harvard alum Mary Anne Fox Trump has railed against Harvard calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism providing scant or anecdotal evidence to back up these contends The school has refused to comply with the president s orders to change its hiring and admissions policies to be more to his liking He s just gonna keep coming and Harvard just necessities to keep pushing back announced Harvard Professor of Leadership Ryan Enos Massachusetts Senator Ed Markey agreed saying We are going to fight every single step of the way Markey was joined in his aid of the school by Governor Maura Healey herself a graduate of the school When Trump attacks Harvard he s attacking Massachusetts financial market and the United States financial sector Healey noted Trump has already ordered his administration to freeze more than w billion in federal funds and this week threatened to pull another billion in grant money It hurts the country Harvard President Alan Garber declared in an interview on NPR The research funding is given to universities to carry out work that the federal executive designates is high priority work Trump also ordered a ban on Harvard s ability to enroll foreign students and moved to revoke the school s tax-exempt status