DHS Secretary Kristi Noem cuts $2.7M in Harvard grants, demands visa records

DHS Minister of the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) canceled $ 2.7 million from grants to Harvard University on Wednesday.
In a statement, Nayyim announced the cancellation of two university scholarships, and announced that the Ivy Legue elite elite Foundation was “not suitable for taxpayers.”
The university was ordered to provide records by April 30, or risk losing its certificates to register international students as part of the student visitors and exchange program (SEVP).
“By poisoning the ideology of the anti -America, the university campus poisoning and classrooms, Harvard’s position as a higher institution for higher education is a distant memory,” Naim said in the statement. “America requires more than universities charged with taxpayers.”
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The grants that were canceled include the “Implementation Sciences for the Prevention of Targeted Violence of $ 800.303, which the Ministry of National Security for Conservatives classified as extremists from the right -wing extremist, and the spaces of the 1934,934 dollars, which were funded, which were funded by Nayyem’s office as an organizational of Nayyem.
The move comes after president Donald Trump’s decision to freeze $ 2.2 billion from federal funding to Harvard University and asking the Tax Authority to cancel the tax -exempt.
People walk through a gate as they leave Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Joseph Priziosu / AFP via Getty Images)
The Tax Authority is currently reviewing a non -profit designation (3) (3) (3) from the university, according to sources in the Ministry of Justice (doj). No final decision has been made yet.
In a post on social media, Trump criticized the leadership and faculty members of Harvard University, and writing, “Harvard University has rented almost all of them, the left, stupid and” birds “who can only teach failure on students and the so -called” future leaders “.
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The DHS procedure comes amid a broader federal campaign on the campus, anti -Semitism on October 7, 2023, Hamas’s attack on Israel.
In the months after this, Harvard University faced criticism about the anti -Semitic discourse and the protests that include students and faculty members. Naim’s speech refers to “rioters in a foreign visa” and calls on Harvard University to provide documents for their behavior.

The Minister of Ministers of the National Security Ministry of Security, Christie Nom, as President of Donald Trump speaking at the White House office, April 9, in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
With a gift of $ 53.2 billion, Harvard is one of the richest institutions in the world. The Ministry of National Security confirmed that the university can bear the costs of financing its own programs and should not rely on taxpayers ’money if it does not meet the federal standards of student behavior and institutional accountability.
Harvard did not publicly respond to finishing the grants or requesting DHS on the records.
The Ministry of Education also audits at the university. Education Minister Linda McMahon recently launched a review of more than $ 255.6 million in federal contracts and about $ 9 billion of grants involved Harvard and her subsidiaries.

Christie Naim, Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Security. (Ken CEDENO/Upi/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
McMahon said: “Harvard failed to protect students on the campus from anti-Semitic discrimination-all with the promotion of division-making ideologies on the free investigation-his reputation was in serious danger,” McMahon said.
The move comes shortly after taking similar measures against Columbia University, where the federal government puts the enforcement of institutions that it says fails to meet the obligations of civil rights and national security.
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Nayyem’s office did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for comment.
Andrea Margolis and Alexis McAdams contributed to this report.
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2025-04-17 02:46:00