Trump Announces Plan to Revoke Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status

The president says that the move is ‘what they deserve.’

Demonstrators rally on Cambridge Common in a protest organized by the City of Cambridge calling on Harvard leadership to resist federal government demands at the university, in Cambridge, Mass., on April 12, 2025. Nicholas Pfosi/Reuters

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would strip Harvard University of its tax-exempt status, as a battle between his administration and the Ivy League school continues.

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. He did not elaborate on the details, including when it may happen.