After decades of indoctrinating young Americans against the nation’s traditional values and constitutional republican form of government, Harvard University is outraged that the man voters elected to lead the federal government is seeking to cut off the huge flow of tax dollars. Other far-left universities are also in the crosshairs.
Trump did not mince words in his latest brutal rebuke of the institution. “Harvard is an antisemitic, far-left Institution, as are numerous others, with students being accepted from all over the world that want to rip our country apart,” the president wrote on April 24 on his Truth Social platform after Harvard announced a lawsuit against the administration.
“The place is a liberal mess, allowing a certain group of crazed lunatics to enter and exit the classroom and spew fake anger and hate,” continued President Trump, echoing the concerns of millions of Americans whose tax dollars are subsidizing the extremism and indoctrination in higher-learning institutions. “It is truly horrific!”
Earlier this month, the Trump administration paused billions of dollars in grants and tens of millions in contracts to Harvard. The reason: the once-prestigious university refuses to stop its tax-subsidized “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs or protect Jews on campus, among other concerns. The university’s non-profit status may be next.
Harvard President Alan Garber balked. “No government — regardless of which party is in power — should dictate what private universities can teach, whom they can admit and hire, and which areas of study and inquiry they can pursue,” he fumed, omitting the fact that government does not dictate those things for institutions that do not take public funds.
Ironically, perhaps, Harvard is hiding behind a perverse interpretation of the very Constitution it has spent so many years seeking to overthrow. Pointing to the Constitution’s First Amendment, which prohibits federal infringements on the right to free speech, the far-left university claims Trump’s defunding threat is somehow “unconstitutional.”
In reality, federal funding of Harvard is unconstitutional. A quick reading of Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution outlines all of the powers delegated to Congress — the institution with all legislative power. As the Tenth Amendment makes clear, all powers not delegated to the U.S. government, including funding of education, are reserved to the states or the people.
The lawsuit filed by Harvard will be overseen by a far-left federal judge appointed by Obama. The judge, District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs of Massachusetts, is known as a leftist radical. And she has a history of issuing lawless rulings that were later overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In fact, in 2019, Burroughs ruled to protect Harvard’s racist and discriminatory admissions policy that was excluding Asian American and European-descent students. That ruling was overturned in 2023 in a landmark case that ended racial discrimination in government-funded educational institutions.
In its lawsuit, Harvard argued that it should be allowed to keep doing what it is doing with your money. The university is also arguing that Trump’s proposed cuts would have far-reaching effects. “The consequences of the government’s overreach will be severe and long-lasting,” Harvard President Garber said in announcing the lawsuit.
The lawsuit reads: “The Government has not — and cannot — identify any rational connection between antisemitism concerns and the medical, scientific, technological, and other research it has frozen that aims to save American lives, foster American success, preserve American security, and maintain America’s position as a global leader in innovation.”
“Nor has the Government acknowledged the significant consequences that the indefinite freeze of billions of dollars in federal research funding will have on Harvard’s research programs, the beneficiaries of that research, and the national interest in furthering American innovation and progress,” the university’s court filings claimed.
Of course, Harvard does not really need money borrowed from Communist China by the federal government to keep brainwashing students. It has an endowment worth over $50 billion. And its students and their largely wealthy parents already pay exorbitant tuition for the indoctrination masquerading as education.
While much of the far-left media propaganda machine is circling the wagons around Harvard and other indoctrination centers, public anger is getting a hearing. An op-ed in USA Today, America’s largest paper by circulation, slammed the university for shunning conservative students and faculty while arguing that it should be defunded.
“Trump is not anti-higher education. He’s not even anti-Harvard,” argued USA Today columnist Nicole Russel, a mother of 4, in the column supporting Trump’s efforts to rein in university extremism and discrimination. “He is against taxpayers funding universities that teach America’s young people to hate our country and Western values.”
What has happened to Harvard is beyond tragic. Founded by pious and courageous Christians to train up citizens in biblical truth, the university now spends billions of tax dollars fighting against it. Less than two percent of its faculty identify as conservative, and not a single member of the staff identifies as “very conservative.”
Far better than borrowing more and using unconstitutional federal funding to control universities would be to obey the Constitution. The feds have no business in education under the Supreme Law of the Land anyway. But as long as tax money is going to “higher learning,” taxpayers should not be forced to fund anti-American and anti-Christian hate.
