Harvard University has sued the Trump administration, asking a federal court to unfreeze billions of dollars in federal contracts and grants that the administration is withholding because of what officials say is the Ivy League school’s refusal to end diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) requirements and combat campus anti-Semitism.
“The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting,” Harvard President Alan Garber said in a statement on April 21 announcing the lawsuit. “Research that the government has put in jeopardy includes efforts to improve the prospects of children who survive cancer, to understand at the molecular level how cancer spreads throughout the body, to predict the spread of infectious disease outbreaks, and to ease the pain of soldiers wounded on the battlefield.”
