President Trump instructs agencies to cancel all contracts with Harvard

WASHINGTON AP The Trump administration is asking federal agencies to cancel contracts with Harvard University worth about million a senior administration official stated Tuesday The regime already has canceled more than billion in federal research grants for the Ivy League school which has pushed back on the administration s demands for changes to several of its policies A draft letter from the General Services Administration directs agencies to review contracts with the university and seek alternate vendors The administration is planning to send a version of the letter Tuesday the official stated The official spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe internal deliberations The New York Times first informed on the letter President Donald Trump has railed against Harvard in an intensifying clash with the nation s oldest and wealthiest university calling it a hotbed of liberalism and antisemitism Harvard filed a lawsuit April over the administration s calls for changes to the university s leadership governance and admissions policies Since then the administration has slashed the school s federal funding moved to cut off enrollment of international students and threatened its tax-exempt status The administration has identified about contracts across nine agencies to be reviewed for cancellation according to another administration official who was not authorized to speak publicly and provided these details on the condition of anonymity The contracts total roughly million including executive training for Department of Homeland Precaution authorities Agencies with contracts that are deemed critical are being directed not to halt them promptly but to devise a plan to transition to a different vendor other than Harvard The letter applies only to federal contracts with Harvard and not its remaining research grants