The government of the US president Donald Trump escalated on Friday her campaign against Harvard University, setting new restrictions on the ability of the University of Ivy League to have access to federal funds For student assistance, citing concerns about the “financial situation” of the oldest and richest university in the United States.

The Ministry of Education said it set Harvard, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Se of ‘increased cash monitoring’ statusa displacement from the formal practice that forces it to use its own funds to disburse federal student assistance prior to funds from the ministry.

The Ministry of Education also seeks to ask Harvard to issueI Credit Letter of $ 36 million to ensure that his financial obligations be fulfilled. In a letter, he said that recent events raise concerns about Harvard’s finances, citing his decision to issue bonds and layoffs in the midst of his conflict with the White House.

The Ministry of Education stated that Harvard is in danger of losing access to all federal funding for student assistancebecause it does not comply with requests for files from the Civil Rights Office. This office is considering whether Harvard continues to take into account the race in the process of admission to undergraduate students, even after the US Supreme Court ruling in 2023 that the positive action practices on which schools were based to enhance the registration of racial minorities were illegal.

The Trump government is seeking a settlement with Harvard. Trump has stated that Harvard has to pay “nothing less than $ 500 million”.

This latest blow to the ongoing controversy of the Trump government with academia comes after a judicial victory for the University based in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the northeast United States.

Trump officials blame the university and other schools across the country of promoting the so -called ideology of “awakening”, while not sufficiently protecting its Jewish students during the Philop -Palestinian protests.

Harvard has denied these allegations, saying that the federal government focuses on controlling the recruitment, imports and curriculum of the University.