04/15/2025

Trump Threatens to Tax Harvard as a Political Entity

The university is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt nonprofit

President Donald Trump is threatening to tax Harvard University as a political entity after the institution rejected the administration’s policy change demands, which resulted in the freezing of $2.2 billion in federal funding.

"Perhaps Harvard should lose its tax-exempt status and be taxed as a political entity if it keeps pushing political, ideological and terrorist inspired/supporting 'sickness?' Remember, tax-exempt status is totally contingent on acting in the public interest!" Trump posted on Truth Social.*

The Trump administration has threatened numerous colleges across the United States with funding cuts if ideological changes in school policy were not made; Harvard’s move appears to mark the first time an elite university has rebuked the White House over those demands.

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*Grammatical corrections related to capitalization and punctuation corrected by OSAP.