What to know about the Trump administration task force targeting Harvard
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The Trump administration’s aggressive aim at Harvard University and other higher education institutions is being quietly spearheaded by a Justice Department-led task force under the leadership of former Fox News personality and civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell, in conjunction with top Trump official Stephen Miller and others.
The Trump administration’s aggressive aim at Harvard University and other higher education institutions is being quietly spearheaded by a Justice Department-led task force under the leadership of former Fox News personality and civil rights lawyer Leo Terrell, in conjunction with top Trump official Stephen Miller and others. The administration says its Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, created following a February executive order, is intended to crack down on antisemitism on campuses amid the Israel-Hamas war. But even prominent Jewish organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League and Harvard’s chapter of the Hillel student organization, have publicly questioned the administration’s broad attacks on the university. The task force’s early actions against the nation’s most elite academic institutions underscore the power and influence that Miller has amassed in Trump’s second term – implementing an agenda years in the making that extends far beyond the issue of combating antisemitism. Months after its formation, the task force sent demands for policy changes to Harvard president Alan Garber, which the university rejected. Several days later, the federal task force announced a $2.2 billion funding freeze on Harvard, setting up a major clash over academic freedom, federal funding and campus oversight. The Ivy League university sued the Trump administration on Monday. But the administration has recently signaled that it’s open to making a deal with Harvard, with one White House official comparing conversations around federal funding for higher educational institutions to Trump’s tariff policies – subject to negotiation. Here’s what we know about the task force, its goals and its leaders:
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