Harvard refuses to comply with Trump admin's order to shut down DEI, audit programs that 'fuel antisemitic harassment'

As the Trump administration has been reviewing $9 billion in federal funds going to Harvard, the Ivy League college has said that it will not comply with a list of orders given by the White House, including the dismantling of their DEI programs as well as auditing school programs that the Trump administration has said, "fuel antisemitic harassment or reflect ideological capture."

On Monday morning, Harvard President Alan M. Garber announced that Harvard would not be complying with a list of orders from the Trump administration as the White House is reviewing $9 billion in federal funding that is going to the school.

"Late Friday night, the administration issued an updated and expanded list of demands, warning that Harvard must comply if we intend to 'maintain [our] financial relationship with the federal government.' It makes clear that the intention is not to work with us to address antisemitism in a cooperative and constructive manner. Although some of the demands outlined by the government are aimed at combating antisemitism, the majority represent direct governmental regulation of the 'intellectual conditions' at Harvard," Garber said in a press release.