Trump’s blows on Harvard are landing

As President Trump escalated his attacks against Harvard University, its board resolved to fight. Trustees discussed whether to sue the administration or pursue deal talks with Trump after he first targeted the university in March.

Even as President Trump pulled billions in federal funds from the university, threatened its tax exempt status and tried to prevent it from enrolling foreign students, the school has stood firm.

By Friday, Harvard filed two lawsuits against the Trump administration, the latest to regain its foreign students. But Trump showed no signs of backing down, saying “Harvard’s going to have to change its ways.”

But even as Harvard looks to the Courts for relief, faculty and administrators on campus are making contingency plans. Harvard is already contending with the damage the Trump administration has inflicted on it, and the administration still has many more levers to pull to further strain the university’s resources while the legal fight goes on.

Funding is unlikely to return to its full level even if Harvard wins a lawsuit it has filed against the federal government, seeking to restore billions in federal funds. The way that universities have been structured vis a vis government funding is being altered, as the Trump administration views many of them as a hotbed for leftism and anti Americanism, ideologies that should not be funded by the US government.

While Harvard will undoubtedly resist the Trump administration to appease the extreme leftists at the school, they are and will continue to feel the pain as a result of their actions.