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“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” That’s what President Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social on Friday. The threat comes amid a fight between the administration and the Ivy League school in which the White House froze billions of dollars in federal grants, saying it viewed the school’s protection of Jewish students during protests over the war in Gaza as inadequate. Harvard sued in response, charging that the administration threatened its academic independence. Tax law prohibits members of the administration from directly or indirectly asking the Internal Revenue Service to pull a nonprofit’s tax status. After Trump made similar comments earlier, the White House said an investigation into whether Harvard violated laws preventing nonprofits from political activity was already underway, and was separate from the president’s remarks. (Wall Street Journal — subscription)
President Trump has signed an executive order seeking to cut off federal funds to NPR and the Public Broadcasting Service. The order instructs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop providing federal funds to NPR and PBS, as well as grants to their local affiliates. The CPB sends most of its annual $535 million in federal funds to local stations, which make their own programs or buy programming from “services such as NPR and PBS.” The order, which accuses the services of progressive bias, could be subject to legal challenge. In a statement, an NPR spokesperson said, “NPR’s editorial practices and decision-making are independent and free from outside influence” and that it works with local nonprofit stations “to fill critical needs for news and information in America’s communities.” (Washington Post)
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