{"id":3253,"date":"2025-07-23T01:17:22","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/from-harvard-case-to-tariffs-trumps-policies-under-scrutiny\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T01:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T01:17:22","slug":"from-harvard-case-to-tariffs-trumps-policies-under-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/from-harvard-case-to-tariffs-trumps-policies-under-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"From Harvard case to tariffs, Trump’s policies under scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Harvard University urged a federal judge on Monday to order U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to restore about $2.5 billion in canceled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school.<\/p>\n

However, a lawyer for the Trump administration told the judge the canceled grants reflect a government priority not to send money to institutions that practice antisemitism.<\/p>\n

“Harvard prioritized campus protesters over cancer research,” said Michael Velchik, a senior lawyer at the U.S. Justice Department.<\/p>\n

Steven Lehotsky, a lawyer for Harvard, said the government has made wholesale cuts to research under the guise of combating antisemitism, but hasn’t identified any connection between the two.<\/p>\n

“The administration has given no consideration to patients, the public at large and the harm of all this research being cut off,” Lehotsky told the court.<\/p>\n

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said she had problems with the government’s argument that it has the ability to terminate Harvard’s federal funding grants for any policy reasons.<\/p>\n

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“That’s a major stumbling block for me,” Burroughs said.<\/p>\n

The court hearing before Burroughs in Boston lasted more than two hours, but ended without a ruling.<\/p>\n

The case marks a crucial moment in the White House’s escalating conflict with Harvard, which has been in the administration’s crosshairs after it rejected a list of demands to make changes to its governance, hiring and admissions practices in April.<\/p>\n

Harvard has become a central focus of the administration’s broad campaign to leverage federal funding to force change at U.S. universities, which Trump says are gripped by antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies.<\/p>\n

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The Harvard case has been one of media focus during Trump’s second term. Another highly debated one is tariff. <\/p>\n

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U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said on Sunday that August 1 is the deadline for countries to begin paying reciprocal tariffs to the United States, though adding that “nothing stops countries from talking to us after August 1.”<\/p>\n

The country-specific tariffs include a 50-percent tariff on Brazil, a 35-percent tariff on Canada, a 30-percent tariff on the EU and Mexico, and 25-percent tariffs on Japan and South Korea. Each of those countries is among the top exporters of goods to the U.S.<\/p>\n

The latest tit-for-tat tariff response could be from Canada as the country’s Prime Minister Mark Carney said in June that Canada would adjust steel and aluminum counter-tariffs on Monday, depending on how the trade negotiations with Trump were going.<\/p>\n

Reducing costs was a major Trump and Republican 2024 promise, but the president’s unpredictable back-and-forth on tariffs have been hurting consumers.<\/p>\n

“Costs are increasing, especially rent,” Jacob Dials, an Arizona Democrat, told CNN.<\/p>\n

“Across the board tariffs are not a good approach,” Cynthia Sabatini, a suburban Philadelphia Republican who supports many Trump policies, told CNN.<\/p>\n

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Those complaints are not alone. An AP-NORC poll, which was conducted in mid-July with issues ranging from economy to government spending and healthcare, found that only about one-quarter of U.S. adults said that Trump’s policies have helped them since he took office.<\/p>\n

And roughly half of U.S. adults report that Trump’s policies have “done more to hurt” them since his second term began six months ago, according to the survey.<\/p>\n

Timothy Dwyer, of Dyersburg, Tennessee, a 26-year-old self-described independent who works in retail sales and leans Republican, said Trump’s work on the economy, especially his tariffs, has “really sucked.”<\/p>\n

“He’s turned us into a toilet and has absolutely made us the laughing stock of the world,” Dwyer said of Trump’s trade policies.<\/p>\n

The reviews on Trump’s policies come as he struggles to follow through on key campaign promises, including lowering costs for working-class Americans, preserving popular social welfare programs like Medicaid and lowering government spending.<\/p>\n

What’s behind Trump’s efforts is that inflation rose last month to its highest level since February, 11.8 million more Americans becoming uninsured and adding $3.3 trillion to the national debt, the Congressional Budget Office estimated.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, more than 40 percent of businesses that use imported goods in both the manufacturing or services industry have so far reported a decrease in net incomes, according to a recent New York Fed survey.<\/p>\n

(With input from agencies)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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From Harvard case to tariffs, Trump’s policies under scrutiny<\/div>\n

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Harvard University urged a federal judge on Monday to order U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to restore about $2.5 billion in canceled federal grants and cease efforts to cut off research funding to the prestigious Ivy League school. However, a lawyer for the Trump administration told the judge the canceled grants reflect a government priority…<\/p>\n

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