Harvard expands lawsuit after Trump cancels $450 million more in grants

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Harvard expands lawsuit after Trump cancels $450 million more in grants
By Nate Raymond
May 13, 20256:14 PM EDT Updated 3 hours ago

Harvard expands lawsuit after latest grant terminations
Trump administration said it is terminating additional $450 million in grants
Harvard claims funding freeze violates First Amendment rights

BOSTON, May 13 (Reuters) - Harvard University expanded its lawsuit challenging the Trump administration's moves to cut off billions of dollars in federal funding to the Ivy League school on Tuesday after officials said they are terminating an additional $450 million in grants.

Harvard filed the amended complaint in federal court in Boston hours after a federal antisemitism task force announced that eight government agencies were canceling additional grants on top of the $2.2 billion in funding President Donald Trump's administration had already terminated.

The task force, which includes representatives from agencies including the U.S. departments of Education, Health and Human Services, and Justice, did so after accusing the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based school of failing to confront "pervasive race discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment plaguing its campus."

In response, Harvard expanded a lawsuit it first filed on April 22 after the administration froze the initial $2.2 billion to cover those latest research-grant terminations, which came from agencies including the U.S. departments of Defense and Energy as well as the National Science Foundation.

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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-terminates-another-450-million-grants-harvard-2025-05-13/