The White House Public Services Department is expected to send a letter to the federal agencies on Tuesday asking them to “specify any contracts with Harvard, and whether it can be canceled or re -directed to another place,” said a senior management official at ABC News.
The move comes at a time when President Donald Trump continues to attack the school because the university has not complied with the administration’s demands for providing data on its international students. This comes after the President announced during the weekend that he is considering allocating $ 3 billion from Harvard to other commercial schools, the latest in his battle with Ivy Legue.
Harvard University filed a lawsuit against the administration last week regarding the school from accepting international students.
The administration argues in the letter, obtained by ABC News, that being a contractor for the federal government “comes with deep responsibility and commitment to commitment to all federal laws and ensuring the protection of taxpayers’ money.”
The message continues to claim that Harvard “is still involved in discrimination in race, including in the admission process and in other areas of students’ lives” – some of the diversity, fairness and inclusiveness practices that the Trump administration worked on.
President Donald Trump speaks during a decline in flower day on the anniversary of the memorial runway in the Armington National Cemetery, May 26, 2025 in Arlington, Virginia.
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The message also claims that the university has “possible discriminatory employment practices and possible violations of the seventh union law of the 1964 Civil Rights Law.” The message also indicates what they say is “the disturbing lack of the safety and welfare of Jewish students,” according to the administration official – in reference to the cases of anti -Semitism on the campus.
The letter says that the agencies must “consider their contracts with Harvard University and determine whether Harvard University and its services are enhancing the agency’s priorities efficiently.” It also guides the agencies to have a list of contracts with the university and the procedures that the agency will carry out by June 6.
People are walking through Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 15, 2025.
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“We recommend an end to your agency, as every contract that he specifies has failed to meet his standards, and to move to a new seller for those contracts that you can serve better by an alternative pilot.
The school did not immediately comment on the message.
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ABC News’ Ivan Pereira contributed to this report.
