Peter Link 🍉🇨🇺🇵🇸🐧<p>Harvard University punished with $2b funding freeze for defying Trump</p><p>Freeze followed a letter sent on Monday to the Trump administration saying it rejects the government’s demands </p><p>from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MiddleEastEye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MiddleEastEye</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/MEE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MEE</span></a><br>By Syma Mohammed<br>Published date: 15 April 2025 21:30 BST </p><p>"The freeze, representing 35.9 percent of <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Harvard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Harvard</span></a>'s $6.4bn operating expenses, immediately followed a letter on Monday from <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/HarvardUniversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HarvardUniversity</span></a> lawyers to the <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration, stating that it rejected the government’s demands.</p><p>The letter, issued by Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and LLP King & Spalding LLP, said that “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”"</p><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/harvard-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">middleeasteye.net/news/harvard</span><span class="invisible">-university-punished-2b-funding-freeze-defying-trump</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendAcademicFreedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendAcademicFreedom</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ReleaseMahmoudKhalil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReleaseMahmoudKhalil</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>repression</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/FreeMahdawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeMahdawi</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/StopTheDeportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopTheDeportations</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendFreeSpeech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendFreeSpeech</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/ProtestIsNotACrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ProtestIsNotACrime</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/DefendStudentProtesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DefendStudentProtesters</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine</span></a> <br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/US" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>US</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/USPolitics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPolitics</span></a><br><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/press" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>press</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span></p>