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EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas
Protesters show their Harvard IDs as security guards try to close the gate to Harvard University. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
Following the administration’s decision to freeze $2.2 billion in contracts, Homeland Security takes its own steps to punish America’s best-known university.
By Frannie Block
04.17.25 — Education
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President Donald Trump’s administration lashed back at Harvard University on Wednesday, with the Department of Homeland Security cutting over $2.7 million in grants and threatening to cancel all student visas, according to a press release obtained exclusively by The Free Press. The move comes two days after Harvard refused to agree to a series of demands by the administration, and Harvard’s president Alan Garber said that the university “will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

The DHS release states that Harvard is “unfit to be entrusted with taxpayer dollars.”

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Frannie Block
Frannie Block is an investigative reporter at The Free Press, where she covers the forces shaping American life—from foreign influence in U.S. politics and national security to institutional overreach and due process failures. She began her career covering breaking news at The Des Moines Register.
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