{"id":12477,"date":"2025-12-19T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-administration-will-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-cuts-at-harvard\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T18:56:08","slug":"trump-administration-will-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-cuts-at-harvard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-administration-will-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-cuts-at-harvard\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration will appeal judge\u2019s order reversing federal funding cuts at Harvard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge&rsquo;s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University, extending a standoff over the White House&rsquo;s demands for reforms at the Ivy League school.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal late on Thursday in a pair of consolidated lawsuits brought by Harvard and the American Association of University Professors. The case has tested the government&rsquo;s power to sway the nation&rsquo;s oldest and wealthiest university, which has resisted a pressure campaign targeting elite colleges around the country.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled in September that the Trump administration&rsquo;s sweeping funding cuts violated Harvard&rsquo;s First Amendment rights. The judge said the government put unconstitutional conditions on Harvard&rsquo;s federal funding and failed to follow federal procedures allowing the government to sanction universities for civil rights violations.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration cut more than $2.6 billion from Harvard over allegations that it had been slow to deal with anti-Jewish bias on campus. Burroughs rejected that notion, saying the government was using antisemitism &ldquo;as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country&rsquo;s premier universities.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The notice of appeal is a first step in the government&rsquo;s effort to have the ruling overturned. It does not provide legal arguments behind the appeal.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Huston, a White House spokesperson, said Harvard has failed to protect students from discrimination on campus.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/12-weeks-jail-for-school-it-support-technician-who-took-upskirt-videos-of-teachers\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">&lt;div&gt;12 weeks' jail for school IT support technician who took upskirt videos of teachers&lt;\/div&gt;<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>&ldquo;Harvard is not entitled to taxpayer funding, and we are confident the university will be held fully accountable for their failures,&rdquo; Huston said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard officials said they&rsquo;re confident in their case.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The federal district court ruled in Harvard&rsquo;s favor in September, reinstating critical research funding that advances science and life-saving medical breakthroughs, strengthens national security, and enhances our nation&rsquo;s competitiveness and economic priorities,&rdquo; the university said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Todd Wolfson, president of the AAUP, said the administration&rsquo;s appeal is &ldquo;just a continuation of their shameless campaign to halt critical research funding in an attempt to chill universities and faculty from engaging in any speech, teaching, and research that Donald Trump disfavors.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harvard has been Trump&rsquo;s top target in a campaign to leverage federal control of research funding to push for reforms at elite colleges he has decried as overrun by &ldquo;woke&rdquo; ideology. Harvard has put up a fight against the government&rsquo;s wide-reaching demands, even as others like Columbia, Brown and Cornell universities reach deals with the government.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard and the White House have continued negotiations amid the legal battle, and Trump has multiple times indicated a resolution was imminent. In September, he said officials were close to a deal that would require a $500 million payment from Harvard to create a &ldquo;giant trade school&rdquo; to produce workers for American plants.<\/p>\n<div class=\"internal-linking-related-contents\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/migrant-acquitted-in-first-trial-over-us-border-military-zones\/\" class=\"template-1\"><span class=\"cta\">News :<\/span><span class=\"postTitle\">Migrant acquitted in first trial over US border military zones<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>The deal never materialized and Trump has been quiet on the issue since then.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press&rsquo; education coverage receives financial support from multiple private foundations. AP is solely responsible for all content. Find AP&rsquo;s standards for working with philanthropies, a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP.org.<\/p>\n<p>Source<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Trump administration will appeal judge&rsquo;s order reversing federal funding cuts at Harvard<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) &mdash; The Trump administration will appeal a federal judge&rsquo;s order reversing billions of dollars in funding cuts to Harvard University, extending a standoff over the White House&rsquo;s demands for reforms at the Ivy League school. The Justice Department filed a notice of appeal late on Thursday in a pair of consolidated lawsuits brought&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/trump-administration-will-appeal-judges-order-reversing-federal-funding-cuts-at-harvard\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Trump administration will appeal judge\u2019s order reversing federal funding cuts at Harvard&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}