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Elite-University: Trump makes his threat come true
Updated on May 28, 2025 – 11:45 a.m.Reading time: 40 min.
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In the United States, the dispute between the US government and the Elite University Harvard continues to come to a head. According to an insider, the government under US President Donald Trump has called on all federal authorities to terminate all remaining contracts with Harvard. As a person trusted with the matter, this emerged on Tuesday (local time) from a letter from the US General Services Administration (GSA, “General Service Management”), which was sent to the federal authorities on the same day. Accordingly, all authorities should check their contracts with Harvard and terminate or assign them as a new. The insider estimated the value of these contracts at around $ 100 million. Harvard did not react immediately to a request for comment.
In the letter from Josh Gruenbaum, the GSA representative for federal procurement, the Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, discriminatory attitudes and the failure to protect Jewish students from harassment is accused. In the letter, the authorities are asked to submit a list of the contracts terminated by June 6th. In addition, contracts for critical services are to be passed on to other providers.
US President Donald Trump had already considered withdrawing withdrawal of funding that had already been promised on Monday after attempted admission stop for foreign students at Harvard. “I am considering withdrawing the very anti -Semitic Harvard university of $ 30 billion in funding and distributing them at vocational schools across the country,” Trump wrote at his short message service Truth Social. After the Ministry of Education had already put funding in billions of bills on hold, Trump also threatened to withdraw tax benefits in April.
The US government welcomes the newly launched distribution of relief goods in the Gaza Strip-and at the same time goes at a distance from the foundation behind it. One does not speak for the Gaza Humanitrian Foundation (GHF), emphasized the spokeswoman for the US State Department, Tammy Bruce, repeated in Washington when asked. At the same time, it emphasized the importance of the aid deliveries that had previously been arrived.
