{"id":40457,"date":"2025-05-02T14:09:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-says-hell-revoke-harvards-tax-exempt-status\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T14:09:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T14:09:31","slug":"trump-says-hell-revoke-harvards-tax-exempt-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/02\/trump-says-hell-revoke-harvards-tax-exempt-status\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he\u2019ll revoke Harvard\u2019s tax-exempt status"},"content":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump declared Friday that “We are going to be taking away Harvard\u2019s Tax Exempt Status,”<\/a> saying “It\u2019s what they deserve!”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The announcement from Trump\u00a0comes after Fox News reported last week<\/a> that his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University\u2019s tax-exempt status. \u00a0The Ivy League school’s failure to address antisemitism on campus is grounds for losing its 501(c)(3) status, sources said at the time.<\/p>\n

“The government has long\u00a0exempted universities from\u00a0taxes in order to support their educational mission. The\u00a0tax exemption means that more of every dollar can go toward scholarships for students, lifesaving and life-enhancing medical research, and technological advancements that drive economic growth. There is no legal basis to rescind Harvard\u2019s\u00a0tax-exempt\u00a0status,” a Harvard University spokesperson told Fox News Digital on Friday, noting that Harvard provided more than $749 million in financial aid during fiscal year 2024.<\/p>\n

“Such an unprecedented action would endanger our ability to carry out our educational mission. It would result in diminished financial aid for students, abandonment of critical medical research programs, and lost opportunities for innovation,” the spokesperson added. “The unlawful use of this instrument more broadly would have grave consequences for the future of higher education in America.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

IVY LEAGUE SUICIDES, PRINCETON’S 8TH STUDENT DEATH IN 4 YEARS EXPOSE CRISIS AT ELITE SCHOOLS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Trump argued in mid-April that Harvard had “lost its way” and didn’t deserve federal funding.<\/p>\n

“Harvard has been hiring almost all woke, Radical Left, idiots and \u2018birdbrains\u2019 who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called \u2018future leaders,'” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Look just to the recent past at their plagiarizing President, who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress.”<\/p>\n

“Many others, like these Leftist dopes, are teaching at Harvard, and because of that, Harvard can no longer be considered even a decent place of learning, and should not be considered on any list of the World\u2019s Great Universities or Colleges,” he continued.<\/p>\n

“Harvard is a JOKE, teaches Hate and Stupidity, and should no longer receive Federal Funds,” Trump also said.<\/p>\n

Harvard has become a target of Trump\u2019s<\/a> broader crackdown on universities, much of which is in response to last year\u2019s anti-Israel unrest that erupted on campuses across the country.<\/p>\n

HARVARD PRESIDENT APOLOGIZES FOR FAILURE TO ADDRESS ANTISEMITISM, ISLAMOPHOBIA AFTER NEW REPORTS RELEASED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

On April 11, the Trump administration sent a letter to Harvard University President Dr. Alan Garber and Harvard Corporation Lead Member Penny Pritzker outlining the institution\u2019s failures and a list of demands from the White House. In the letter, the administration accused Harvard of failing to uphold civil rights laws and to foster an “environment that produces intellectual creativity.”<\/p>\n

The Trump administration threatened to pull federal funding if Harvard did not reform governance and leadership, as well as its hiring and admissions practices by August 2025. The letter emphasized the need for Harvard to change its international admissions process to avoid admitting students who are “hostile” to American values or support terrorism or antisemitism.<\/p>\n

TRUMP BRANDS HARVARD \u2018ANTISEMITIC’ AND A \u2018THREAT TO DEMOCRACY\u2019 DURING FUNDING BATTLE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Harvard refused to comply with the demands, with Garber saying that “no government\u2026 should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and areas of study and inquiry they can pursue.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Trump administration then froze $2.2 billion in funding to Harvard, and is reportedly looking to slash another billion, according to The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n

The university later filed a lawsuit<\/a> against the Trump administration over its “unlawful” freezing of funds.<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Andrea Margolis, Alexis McAdams and Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Donald Trump declared Friday that “We are going to be taking away Harvard\u2019s Tax Exempt Status,” saying “It\u2019s what they deserve!”\u00a0 The announcement from Trump\u00a0comes after Fox News reported last week that his administration asked the Internal Revenue Service to revoke Harvard University\u2019s tax-exempt status. \u00a0The Ivy League school’s failure to address antisemitism on … 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-40457","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\/40457","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=40457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}