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Washington.- The American president, Donald Trump, said this Monday that he is considering the possibility of withdrawing another 3 billion dollars in subsidies for Harvard with the purpose of diverting them to vocational training centers and insisted that the prestigious university has not yet sent the lists of foreign students that his Government demands.
"I am considering taking back $3 billion in subsidies from a very antisemitic Harvard and giving it to vocational schools all over the country. What a great and so needed investment that would be for the USA!" Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social this Monday.
In recent months the Trump Administration has cut nearly $2 billion in federal grants for Harvard, has threatened to withdraw its tax exemptions, and last Thursday announced that it will stop extending visas to foreign students at Harvard and that those already enrolled at this university will have to change schools or risk being expelled from the country.
This latest measure, which a federal judge has temporarily blocked since last Friday, responds to Harvard's refusal to provide the data of its foreign students so that the Executive can find out which of them participated in pro-Palestinian protests and other activities that the Administration sanctions.
"We are still waiting for the lists of foreign students from Harvard so we can determine, after an absurd expenditure of billions of dollars, how many radicalized lunatics, all of them rioters, should not be readmitted to our country," Trump wrote this Monday in another message on Truth Social.
"Harvard is very slow in presenting these documents, and probably with good reason! The best thing about Harvard is that they have sought out and found the best judge (for them!). But fear not, in the end the Government WILL WIN!", concludes his message.
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Since his return to the White House in January, Trump has intensified his confrontation with academic institutions of the prestigious Ivy League such as Columbia or Harvard, accusing the latter of giving rise to antisemitism by allowing demonstrations against the Israeli offensive in Gaza or of favoring the Chinese Communist Party with its exchange programs.
