Feds Put $9 Billion In Federal Funding to Harvard Under Review
Will review $255.6 million in contracts and “the more than $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments… to ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities.”
Several executive branch departments have put funding to Harvard — both contracts and grants — under review due to the gross antisemitism that gripped Harvard’s campus post-10/7 and the feeble administrative response.
From a Press Release:
Today, the Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), announced a comprehensive review of federal contracts and grants at Harvard University and its affiliates. This review is part of the ongoing efforts of the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism.
The Task Force will review the more than $255.6 million in contracts between Harvard University, its affiliates and the Federal Government. The review also includes the more than $8.7 billion in multi-year grant commitments to Harvard University and its affiliates to ensure the university is in compliance with federal regulations, including its civil rights responsibilities.
“Harvard has served as a symbol of the American Dream for generations – the pinnacle aspiration for students all over the world to work hard and earn admission to the storied institution,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “Harvard’s failure to protect students on campus from anti-Semitic discrimination – all while promoting divisive ideologies over free inquiry – has put its reputation in serious jeopardy. Harvard can right these wrongs and restore itself to a campus dedicated to academic excellence and truth-seeking, where all students feel safe on its campus.”
Today’s actions by the Task Force follow a similar ongoing review of Columbia University. That review led to Columbia agreeing to comply with 9 preconditions, links to an external website for further negotiations regarding a return of canceled federal funds. This initiative strengthens enforcement of President Trump’s Executive Order titled “Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism, links to an external website. The Task Force ensures that federally funded institutions uphold their legal and ethical responsibilities to prevent anti-Semitic harassment.
We covered some of the turmoil at Harvard at the time. A large sampling of our posts is at the bottom of this post (I didn’t realize how many we had).
We will add reactions as they roll in.
This is why I campaigned and voted for President Trump. Promises made, promises kept.
— Shabbos Kestenbaum (@ShabbosK) March 31, 2025
WHY ARE WE GIVING THEM $9 BILLION IN THE FIRST PLACE
cut it all
— Whale Psychiatrist ™️ (@k_ovfefe2) March 31, 2025
Please cut Harvard’s funds. I ask as an alumna. Today, it lacks academic standards. DEI hire and failed president Claudine Gay is still on faculty. Harvard offers remedial math classes b/c math proficiency is no longer required for admission. Harvard isn’t Harvard anymore.
— Heather Mabis Chase (@Heather68017938) March 31, 2025
UPDATE:
Harvard’s President Alan Garber released this Statement:
Dear Members of the Harvard Community,
Earlier today, the federal government’s task force to combat antisemitism issued a letter putting at risk almost $9 billion in support of research at Harvard and other institutions, including hospitals in our community. If this funding is stopped, it will halt life-saving research and imperil important scientific research and innovation.
The government has informed us that they are considering this action because they are concerned that the University has not fulfilled its obligations to curb and combat antisemitic harassment. We fully embrace the important goal of combatting antisemitism, one of the most insidious forms of bigotry. Urgent action and deep resolve are needed to address this serious problem that is growing across America and around the world. It is present on our campus. I have experienced antisemitism directly, even while serving as president, and I know how damaging it can be to a student who has come to learn and make friends at a college or university.
For the past fifteen months, we have devoted considerable effort to addressing antisemitism. We have strengthened our rules and our approach to disciplining those who violate them. We have enhanced training and education on antisemitism across our campus and introduced measures to support our Jewish community and ensure student safety and security. We have launched programs to promote civil dialogue and respectful disagreement inside and outside the classroom. We have adopted many other reforms, and we will continue to combat antisemitism and to foster a campus culture that includes and supports every member of our community.
We still have much work to do. We will engage with members of the federal government’s task force to combat antisemitism to ensure that they have a full account of the work we have done and the actions we will take going forward to combat antisemitism. We resolve to take the measures that will move Harvard and its vital mission forward while protecting our community and its academic freedom. By doing so, we combat bias and intolerance as we create the conditions that foster the excellence in teaching and research that is at the core of our mission.
Much is at stake here. In longstanding partnership with the federal government, we have launched and nurtured pathbreaking research that has made countless people healthier and safer, more curious and more knowledgeable, improving their lives, their communities, and our world. But we are not perfect. Antisemitism is a critical problem that we must and will continue to address. As an institution and as a community, we acknowledge our shortcomings, pursue needed change, and build stronger bonds that enable all to thrive. Our commitment to these ends—and to the teaching and research at the heart of our University—will not waver.
Sincerely,
Alan M. Garber
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Sample of our coverage of Harvard post 10/7:
- Columbia and Harvard Students, Deans Blame Israel for Hamas Terrorist Attack (Oct. 10, 2023)
- CEOs Vowing Not to Hire Harvard Students Who Signed Letter Blaming Israel for Hamas Attack (Oct. 12, 2023)
- Wexner Foundation Cuts Ties With Harvard Over Response to Hamas Attacks on Israel (Oct. 17, 2023)
- VIDEO: Israeli Student Accosted at Harvard Business School During Pro-Gaza ‘Die-in’ (Oct. 22, 2023)
- Harvard Divinity Student Evicted From Housing After Being Identified in Anti-Israel Mob on Campus (Nov. 12, 2023)
- Grad Student Union at Harvard Endorses Anti-Israel BDS Movement (Nov. 14, 2023)
- Harvard ‘Pro-Palestine’ Students Chanted ‘Globalize the Intifada’ During Anti-Israel ‘Week of Action’ (Dec. 8, 2023)
- Rabbi David Wolpe Quits Harvard Anti-Semitism Committee, Calls School’s Ideology ‘Evil’ (Dec. 9, 2023)
- House GOP Demanding Harvard be Stripped of Billions in Federal Funding Over Anti-Semitism (Dec. 15, 2023)
- Rabbi at Harvard Claims School is Forcing Jewish Student Group to Lock Up Menorah at Night for Fear of Vandalism (Dec.17, 2023)
- Senator Visits Harvard, His Alma Mater, and Shocked to Find Almost Everyone in the Library Wearing a Kaffiyeh (Dec. 18, 2023)
- Harvard Jewish Students Say They Have ‘Witnessed the Denial of Genuine Instances of Antisemitism’ (Jan. 2, 2024)
- Harvard President Claudine Gay Resigns, Plays Victim and Blames Racism (Jan. 2, 2024)
- Jewish Students Sue Harvard for ‘Enabling Antisemitism’ on Campus (Jan. 12, 2024)
- Interim Harvard President Alan M. Garber Slams ‘Pernicious’ Campus Antisemitism (Feb. 2, 2024)
- Harvard Suspends Undergraduate Palestine Solidarity Committee for the Rest of Spring Term (April 22, 2024)
- Anti-Israel Students Establish ‘Liberation Zone’ in Harvard Yard (April 25, 2024)
- Harvard’s Commencement Speaker ‘Compared Israel to Nazi Germany’ (May 6, 2024)
- Harvard Caves to Anti-Israel Encampment, Agrees to Most Demands (May 14, 2024)
- Harvard Students Accused of Assaulting Israeli Classmate Face Criminal Charges (May 18, 2024)
- Jewish Grad Student at Harvard Says Things Are Worse at the School Than People Know (June 7, 2024)
- House Investigation Finds Harvard Ignored Recommendations From Their Antisemitism Taskforce (June 21, 2024)
- Harvard Reverses Decision to Suspend Anti-Israel Student Activists After Criticism From Faculty Council (July 11, 2024)
- Court Allows Antisemitism Case Against Harvard to Proceed (Aug. 6, 2024)
- Anti-Israel Activists March at Harvard Saying ‘Long Live the Intifada’ (Sept. 11, 2024)
- “Stunning Failures of Leadership” Revealed in House Committee Report on Campus Antisemitism (Nov. 5, 2024)
- Antisemitism Lawsuit Against Harvard to Go Forward; Judge Consolidates with Related Case (Nov. 8, 2024)
- Harvard Settled Two Antisemitism Lawsuits a Day After Trump Took Office (Jan. 23, 2025)
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Comments
Let their rich Alumni fund them not us working class that are struggling to get by after 4 years of Bidenimics.
I might not be popular on this, but I am ok with funding real biomedical research (not social pseudoscience though…and not all social science is fake).
Harvard can get that money if they use it wisely or at least as wisely as peers that are actually advancing health outcomes in the US.
I’ll tell you what should be cut though is some of the indirect costs that they suck out of the research field.
Harvard gets over 100% “indirects” on their grants. That means for every $1 awarded for a researcher to do something good Harvard gets over $1 to put into a slush fund.
Last time I was there, the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio (one of the top 20 grant awardee institutions in the country that no one has ever heard of) can do the same job funding the light bills and maintenance on about $.50 on the dollar.
Why are US taxpayers funding a university who has $54 billion in endowment funds, whose student makeup consists largely of foreign students and finally has a majority of professors and administrators who are un-American?
There you go again. Noticing things. And asking questions.
Go to your room!
Sure there is some real research going on at Harvard but the whole thing is Domo decreed even the hard sciences that it’s time to start burning these institutions to the ground, figuratively speaking
So … let’s go! Freeze that $9 billion and make them change.
Harvard has a huge endowment, they could have zero tuition and not be losing money. They should get zero tax dollars.
Harvard is a hedge fund with a university attached.
Dear Harvard, It’s easy. Boot out your terror loving students and fire your terror loving teachers. While you’re at it get rid of those that hate the West. Also, close down all your “studies” departments. They are bastions of hate and divisiveness. You’re welcome. Sincerely, ztakddot
Writing that letter probably took them more time than it would take to get rid of the troublemakers.
Disgusting we, the taxpayers, give 9 billion for that shit hole
No, no more
Not just Harvard. Remove all taxpayer funding from all universities. None are deserving of funding from the everyday citizen. Wanna go to college? Work for it.
I’m actually not turned off by the letter. It’s just empty words as of now, but at least it isn’t all “you are bad and we save lives so you can’t touch us”. They have at least paid lipservice to laying out their case and plans to change. I’m glad they are on notice, and I hope the government does the right thing presented with their evidence.
For reference, here’s a piece in the Crimson about Garber and his intent to be diplomatic with the change in DC. He is putting himself out as someone that won’t be a blind arrogant ideologue that thinks they are bulletproof.
Link didn’t go through: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/13/garber-trump-harvard-impact/
Also, for the record Garber is supportive of Trump’s confirmed NIH appointee Jay Bhattacharya and is a former research mentor of Jay
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/12/13/garber-defends-trump-bhattacharya-nih/
It is surreal that this useless fossil of a university is getting any such money. They are an educational graveyard. Pompous fools marching in a parade for occasions. Contributing nothing but noise.
As I read the letter I couldn’t help but think it was written by AI. What “cya” drivel. The federal government weds to stop all funding at universities. Student loans, Pell Grants, research grants, grants of any kind. You do that and tuition drops immediately. Professors and their assistants suddenly have to teach classes. Core classes
In STEM come to the forefront and useless studies are kicked to the curb. It would be a terrible shock to the university systems, but like any addict withdrawal is the first sign of recovery.
“For the past fifteen months, we have devoted considerable effort to addressing antisemitism. We have strengthened our rules and our approach to disciplining those who violate them.”
And yet the antisemitism continues. You want money, create a zero tolerance policy like you do against normies who don’t believe men pretending to be women are women.
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“We have adopted many other reforms, and we will continue to combat antisemitism and to foster a campus culture that includes and supports every member of our community.”
And yet the antisemitism continues. You want money, create a zero tolerance policy like you do against men who are accused of rape that turns out to be false.
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“Much is at stake here. In longstanding partnership with the federal government, we have launched and nurtured pathbreaking research that has made countless people healthier and safer, more curious and more knowledgeable, improving their lives, their communities, and our world”
And we will continue to drag our feet for the remainder of this administration and go back to full scale Marxism in 2029.
Yeah. Strange how the overly aggressive tactics deployed by the Univ v some frat boy in a he said/she said allegation made well after the event and without evidence seem to be exclusively confined to the purpose of attacking men/the ‘patriarchy’. If Univ used those same tactics v the very real, evidence laden instances of antisemitism then things would be far different.
There’s an old saying in Boston, “You can always tell Harvard man, but you can’t just tell him much.”
Cut off all the funding.
The Harvard president went poor mouth about all the doom as a result of the Feds cutting off this funding. He sounds like a career DC politician. Harvard has upwards of 50 billion in endowment money. Cut off the funding.
And that endowment does not include their valuable real estate portfolio,
Harvard’s endowment is 52 BILLION dollars. Why should I as a blue collar tax payer subsidize this effete culture that is Harvard???
Sorry, no more taxpayer grants, etc at any university, college, other institution if they have over $5,000,000,000 in their endowment funds. This is ridiculous.
Terminate the entire $9 Billion on the principle that the federal government should not be subsidizing a private institution.
Terminate the entire $9 Billion over the fact that Harvard’s admissions policies were entirely racist, and had been for decades, and people had to spend millions to take a case all the way to the SCOTUS – which they won.
Terminate the entire $9 Billion over the fact that Harvard has simply ignored the SCOTUS opinion noted above, and continues to discriminate just as they always have.
Oh, and then there’s the genocidal anti-Semitism that is pervasive among Harvard’s Board, administration, professoriate, and student body. Terminate the entire $9 BIllion for that – not just a few hundred million.