US President Donald Trump has threatened the Harvard elite university to delete the tax advantages due to her educational institution and to classify it as a “political organization”. Harvard may be deleted the tax exemption, Trump wrote in his online service Truth Social. Instead, the university should perhaps be taxed as a political institution “if it continues to drive politically, ideologically and terroristically inspired/supported ‘illness’?” He added. Finally, there should only be a tax exemption if the public interest is acted.
He left open how Trump wants to change the tax status of a university. In the United States, most universities are exempt from income tax because their entire activity serves educational purposes.
Previously, Harvard President Alan Garber had criticized the US government’s approach to universities and opposed Trump and the Ministry of Education. According to this, universities should conclude diversity departments and support the immigration authority in the examination of the students. Garber wrote that this would mean a waiver of the independence of the university and its constitutional rights.
Trump demands an apology according to his spokeswoman
Then that terminated Ministry of Education to delete several years of federal subsidies of $ 2.2 billion in the university. On Tuesday, the Press spokeswoman of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, said Trump also demanded an apology from the university administration.
Meanwhile, the US citizens’ rights organization NAACP filed a lawsuit against the US Ministry of Education to stop withdrawal of funding for universities that have diversity programs. This would deny black Americans equal access to educational opportunities. The Ministry of Education initially did not comment on the lawsuit.
Trump’s domestic policy has followed a cultural -fighting agenda since he took office on January 20, which is specifically directed against minorities and so -called wokeness. He issued decrees for the partial reinterpretation of history in US Museums and the extensive abolition of the US Ministry of Education. He stroked funding or threatens to universities who are committed to diversity or from the US government’s point of view were not sufficiently against anti-Israeli protests and anti-Semitism.
