{"id":8224,"date":"2025-05-02T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=8224"},"modified":"2025-05-02T12:41:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T12:41:33","slug":"trump-says-hes-taking-away-harvards-tax-exempt-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=8224","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he&#8217;s &#8216;taking away&#8217; Harvard&#8217;s tax exempt status"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">President Donald Trump on Friday said he is &#8220;taking away&#8221; Harvard&#8217;s tax exempt status.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">&#8220;It&#8217;s what they deserve,\u201d he said in a Truth Social post.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The decision will likely face legal challenges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Harvard\u2019s president has said revoking the university&#8217;s tax-exempt status would be unlawful and endanger &#8220;our ability to carry out our educational mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Trump previously called for Harvard to lose its tax exempt status after the university said it would not comply with the administration&#8217;s series of demands, including actions on antisemitism and the use of DEI on campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The administration has also frozen more than $2.2 billion in federal funding to Harvard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \"><em class=\" \">This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump on Friday said he is &#8220;taking away&#8221; Harvard&#8217;s tax exempt status. &#8220;It&#8217;s what they deserve,\u201d he said in a Truth Social post. The decision will likely face legal challenges. Harvard\u2019s president has said revoking the university&#8217;s tax-exempt status would be unlawful and endanger &#8220;our ability to carry out our educational mission.&#8221; Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8226,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8224\/revisions\/8226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}