Donald Trump Administration and Higher Education

The Justice Department under President Trump sued Harvard, alleging the university was "deliberately indifferent" to antisemitic harassment of Jewish and Israeli students and asking a court to recover "billions of dollars" in federal subsidies in a 44‑page complaint that accuses Harvard’s diversity bureaucracy of "making a mockery of their own existence." The suit is the latest in the administration’s push to pressure universities over antisemitism and DEI policies, following a previously blocked attempt to freeze nearly $3 billion in Harvard grants.