The United States has once again cut the appropriation for Harvard University by more than 400 million US dollars

The US government has once again cut its funding to Harvard University by 450 million US dollars, marking a further escalation of the conflict between the government and Harvard.

Bloomberg reported that the Joint Task Force against Anti-Semitism announced the decision in a letter on Tuesday (May 13) and criticized Harvard University for failing to deal with "widespread racial discrimination and anti-Semitic harassment".

The letter reads: "The Harvard campus was once a symbol of academic prestige, but now it has become a hotbed for showing off moral superiority and discriminatory behavior." This is not leadership, but cowardice. This is not academic freedom either, but institutional deprivation.

Harvard has angered US President Trump by refusing to allow the government to supervise the school's enrollment and recruitment practices, as well as its political leannesses. Trump had previously announced the freezing of a multi-year grant of 2.2 billion US dollars to Harvard and threatened to revoke Harvard's eligibility to recruit international students and its tax-exempt status. Harvard filed a lawsuit, accusing the government of attempting to manipulate its academic decisions.

Since Trump returned to the White House in January this year, he has demanded that top domestic universities adjust their policies, eradicate so-called anti-Semitism, and abolish enrollment policies that favor ethnic minorities. If the policies are not adjusted, they will face the consequence of funding cuts.