The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has canceled $60 million in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-related grants to Harvard University as part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to cut funding from institutions that fail to address campus Jew-hatred, according to reporting by the Daily Caller.
Jamie Legier, the CDC’s chief grants management official, told the Ivy League school that “grant dollars should only support institutions that comply with principles and laws of nondiscrimination,” according to a May 19 letter obtained by the Daily Caller.
Leiger’s letter cites findings of an April report released by the Harvard Presidential Task Force on Combating Antisemitism and Anti-Israeli Bias that detailed Jew-hatred on campus and revealed the university failed to “foster safe, equal, and healthy working and learning conditions conducive to high-quality research and free inquiry.”
JNS sought comment from the Department of Health and Human Services.
On May 13, the federal Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism canceled another $450 million in grants to Harvard University, beyond the $2.2 billion it terminated in the previous month, for failing to confront pervasive antisemitic harassment.
On Monday, Alan Garber, the president of Harvard University, declined to appear at an upcoming Senate hearing focusing on issues in higher education.
