Posted on 05/27/25
| News Source: The Hill
President Trump is instructing federal agencies to identify and sever remaining contracts with Harvard University, further tightening the screws in its fight with the Ivy League institution.
The letter from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) asks all federal agencies to help in a review to terminate or transition federal government contracts with Harvard and its affiliates. A copy of the letter was shared with The Hill by a source familiar with the matter.
The letter accuses Harvard of engaging in racial discrimination in justifying the termination of contracts.
“As relevant here, GSA understands that Harvard continues to engage in race discrimination,
including in its admissions process and in other areas of student life,” the letter states, pointing to statistics on Harvard’s enrollment.
It also accused Harvard of discrimination in its hiring and promotion and of “anti-Semitic” actions, an apparent reference to pro-Palestinian protests.
“Harvard’s ongoing inaction in the face of repeated and severe harassment and targeting of its
students has at times grounded day-to-day campus operations to a halt, deprived Jewish students of learning and research opportunities to which they are entitled, and profoundly alarmed the general public,” it stated.
Josh Gruenbaum, the commissioner of GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, signed the letter.