{"id":38811,"date":"2025-04-15T11:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/first-thing-obama-condemns-trumps-2-3bn-harvard-funding-freeze-as-unlawful\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T11:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T11:59:06","slug":"first-thing-obama-condemns-trumps-2-3bn-harvard-funding-freeze-as-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/first-thing-obama-condemns-trumps-2-3bn-harvard-funding-freeze-as-unlawful\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Obama condemns Trump\u2019s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as \u2018unlawful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former president says move is an \u2018attempt to stifle academic freedom\u2019. Plus, the people forming relationships with AI chatbots<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\">Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/14\/trump-harvard-funding-freeze\">the agency said yesterday<\/a>, a move that the former US president Barack Obama called \u201cunlawful and ham-handed\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did Obama say about the decision? <\/strong>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2025\/apr\/15\/donald-trump-harvard-funding-tariffs-immigration-dei-us-politics-live-updates\">some of his most vocal criticism<\/a> of this Trump administration, the former president praised Harvard, the country\u2019s oldest university, for setting an example for other higher education institutions to reject federal overreach into its governance practices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What did they say?<\/strong> \u201cThe ruling solely stated that if this individual, at El Salvador\u2019s sole discretion, was sent back to our country, we could deport him a second time,\u201d said Trump\u2019s policy chief, Stephen Miller.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/15\/first-thing-obama-condemns-trump-23bn-harvard-funding-freeze-unlawful\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former president says move is an \u2018attempt to stifle academic freedom\u2019. Plus, the people forming relationships with AI chatbots Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. The US education department is freezing about $2.3bn in federal funds to Harvard University, the agency said yesterday, a move that the former &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Obama condemns Trump\u2019s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as \u2018unlawful\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/15\/first-thing-obama-condemns-trumps-2-3bn-harvard-funding-freeze-as-unlawful\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Obama condemns Trump\u2019s $2.3bn Harvard funding freeze as \u2018unlawful\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}