June 26, 2025
Harvard claims retaliation for resisting governance control while the proclamation cites foreign ties, crime, and antisemitic incidents
Harvard seeks to unfreeze $2.5 billion in blocked funding. The funding freeze affects research on national security, cancer, and other diseases, it says
Harvard claims that the government violated its First Amendment rights
Most of the funding is for biomedical research, and not usually done at the trade schools
A US judge temporarily blocked the administration's order, but it did not provide comfort to Yu-hsuan Lin who has yet to receive her visa
The order provides temporary relief to thousands of international students
Harvard says the Trump administration move - which affects thousands of students - is illegal
Trump has been making an extraordinary effort to revamp private colleges and schools across the US that he says foster anti-American, Marxist and "radical left" ideologies
