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NEW YORK, May 27 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts worth about $100 million with Harvard University, the Associated Press reported Tuesday, in an intensifying standoff between the American leader and the country’s oldest and richest university.
The government has already canceled more than $2.6 billion in federal research grants to the Ivy League school, which has rejected demands from the Trump administration to make a series of changes to its internal policies.
“A draft letter from the U.S. General Services Administration directs federal agencies to review their contracts with the university and find alternative service providers,” the Associated Press reported. The agency plans to send the letter Tuesday.
D. Trump has previously lashed out at Harvard, calling the institution a hotbed of liberalism and anti-Semitism. On April 21, the university filed a lawsuit in connection with the presidential administration’s demands for radical changes to its governance structure, hiring system, and student admissions policies. The government has since cut federal funding for the institution, tried to bar it from accepting foreign students, and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status. –0–