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Hundreds of students, faculty and community members on Thursday instigated a campus in a campus in California as the speakers accused the administration of reducing President Donald Trump of reducing American universities, as they questioned whether Harvard and other tax-free situations.
The protest at the Berkeley campus of the University of California was one of the events called “Rally for the Right to Learn”! Planned across the country.
The administration has reprimanded American universities for dealing with anti -Palestinian student protests, which were prevented in premises from Columbia to Berkeley in New York last year, which were on Gaza after the 2023 Hamas -led attacks and subsequent Israeli attacks inside Israel.
Trump has called the protests an accused of American and antisementary and accused universities as Marxism and “radical left” ideology. On Thursday, he called Harvard, an institution that he repeatedly criticized this week, “A. Discress,” and also criticized others.
Asked about the report that the Internal Revenue Service was planning to remove the tax-free situation of Harvard, Trump told reporters at the White House that he did not think a final verdict was pronounced, and indicated that other schools were subject to investigation.
Trump said in a social media post on Tuesday that he was looking to end Harvard’s tax-free situation, if he inspires “political, ideological and terrorist and ‘disease support/support/support” “?
“I am not involved in this,” he said, saying that the case is being handled by lawyers. “I read about it as you did, but the tax-free situation, I mean, it is a privilege. It is actually a privilege, and it has been abused much more than Harvard.”
“When you take a look at whether it is Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, I don’t know what is going on, but when you see how badly they have acted badly and other ways. So we, we will see it very strongly.”
On Thursday in Berkeley, protesters “education is a public good!” And “Hands with our independent speech!” Professor of a public policy Robert Reich demanded the reactions of Harvard and Columbia to the administration that they take such steps such as abolishing diversity, equity and inclusion programs and inserting academic departments in the control outside.
In a letter on Monday, Harvard President Alan Garber rejected such demands as “claims of power, precious with law”, which violated the Constitutional Open Speech and Civil Rights Act.
Colombia first agreed to negotiate after the Trump administration that it had abolished $ 400 million grant and contracts last month, mostly for medical and other scientific research. After reading the letter of Harvard President’s President, Columbia’s interim president Claire Shipman said that his “good faith will continue to discuss” with the university administration, but “will reject any agreement in which the government teaches what we teach, do research, or whom we rent.”
“Columbia University tried to please an atrocity,” did not work, “Berkeley’s Reich said on the footsteps of the Sparaul Hall at the center of the university campus.
“After Harvard, the persecutor stood up to Colombia, who was surrendering, stood up and said no.”
After the Garber of Harvard issued his letter on Monday, the Trump administration said it was spending $ 2.3 billion in funding to the university. The Department of Homeland security secretary Christie NoM on Wednesday announced the termination of a total of two DHS grants of more than $ 2.7 million to Harvard and said the university would lose its ability to enroll foreign students if it does not meet the demands to share information on some visa holders.
In response, a spokesperson of Harvard said that the university stood to “do not surrender its freedom or abandon its constitutional rights” from its earlier statement, while it would follow the law.
CNN was first planning to cancel the tax-free situation of IRS Harvard for the first time to report to CNN and was expected to be a final decision soon.
Harvard said that there was no legal basis to cancel it, saying that such action would be unprecedented, will reduce their financial assistance for students and leave some important medical research programs.
White House spokesman Harrison Fields said, “Any upcoming action by IRS is conducted independently of the President, and the violation of the tax status of any institution was initiated before the President’s truth.”
Under the federal law, the President cannot request that IRS, which determines that an organization can maintain or maintain a tax-free situation, can check out organizations.
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