Trump administration plans to pull $1 billion in funding from Harvard amid clash with university: report

President Donald Trump is reportedly planning to pull an additional billion in federal funding from Harvard University amid his community battle with the institution according to a statement published Sunday The Wall Street Journal published that the billion is related to the elite Massachusetts Ivy League school's fitness research funding according to sources familiar with the matter The latest statement comes just days after the White House inquired the Internal Revenue Utility IRS to revoke Harvard s tax-exempt status over its alleged failure to address antisemitism on campus In March the Justice Department began a comprehensive review of the school's federal contracts and government-funded grants Last week the Department of Homeland Protection DHS canceled million in DHS grants to the university HARVARD UNDER FIRE AS DHS SECRETARY CUTS M IN GRANTS DEMANDS VISA RECORDSIn a contemporary social media post Trump claimed that Harvard had lost its way and didn't deserve federal funding Harvard has been hiring almost all woke Radical Left idiots and birdbrains who are only capable of teaching FAILURE to students and so-called future leaders ' Trump wrote Look just to the new past at their plagiarizing President who so greatly embarrassed Harvard before the United States Congress Harvard is a JOKE teaches Hate and Stupidity and should no longer receive Federal Funds Earlier last week Fox News Digital spoke with students at Harvard about Trump's latest measures and got mixed results TRUMP ANNOUNCES PLAN TO CHOP DOWN MAGNOLIA TREE PURPORTEDLY PLANTED BY ANDREW JACKSON 'MUST COME TO AN END' In my personal opinion it's that Harvard kind of deserves everything that's happened everything that is coming to it Carter Stewart a classics major and campus Republican commented I think Harvard is faced with a choice and it seems like they're making the wrong choice which is to double down on these crazy ideas that the bulk Americans don't agree with and to pay the price for that So I think it's a good thing that Harvard's being forced to put its money where its mouth is Stewart added Ryan Enos a Harvard professor of authorities offered a different take and stated that he supported the school's defiance against the federal executive You shouldn't have the administration coming in and telling a private institution what it can do in its internal affairs like that Enos revealed People have a right to protest whatever they want I think we need to be really careful not to conflate those two things because otherwise we have a danger of doing things like shutting down free speech Fox News Digital reached out to the White House and Harvard for comment but did not straightaway hear back Fox News Digital's Kaylee Holland and Albas Cubas-Fantauzzi contributed to this document