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Trump Says He Will Strip Harvard’s Tax-Exempt Status
April 20, 2025, Cambridge, MA, USA: Harvard University and Harvard Square scenes with students and pedestrians. Photo: Kenneth Martin/ZUMA Press Wire via Reuters Connect.
President Donald Trump said on Friday he planned to strip Harvard University of its tax–exempt status, setting up another potential legal fight with the Ivy League school amid his wider crackdown on elite universities and the US education system.
“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump said in a post on his social media platform, without specifying when he might take action.
Representatives for the Internal Revenue Service did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Trump‘s post and whether it was revoking the university’s tax–exempt status.
Harvard, in a statement, said the move would be unlawful and unprecedented.
“There is no legal basis to rescind Harvard’s tax–exempt status,” the Boston-area school said. “The unlawful use of this instrument more broadly would have grave consequences for the future of higher education in America.”
It would also cut money available for student scholarships, medical research, and technological advancements that drive economic growth, Harvard added.
Since taking office in January, Trump has targeted major US universities by freezing federal funding, launching investigations, revoking student visas, and making other demands. He has said higher education has been gripped by antisemitic, anti-American, Marxist, and radical left ideologies.
Under federal law, the president cannot request that the IRS, which determines whether an organization can have or maintain tax–exempt status, investigate organizations.
Most universities are exempt from federal income tax under the US tax code because they are deemed to be operated exclusively for public educational purposes.
Trump‘s administration has escalated its fight against Harvard in recent weeks, probing its nearly $9 billion in federal funding, seeking details on its foreign ties, and threatening its ability to enroll foreign students. The administration has also demanded a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion practices, a crackdown on some anti-Israel groups, and a mask ban.
On Wednesday, Trump suggested he would withhold grants.
Harvard has pushed back, suing the administration over the halted US research funding and other demands, and joining more than 200 university and college presidents in protesting Trump‘s higher education policies.
Trump said he was considering an end to Harvard’s tax–exempt status in a separate social media post on April 15, when annual US tax returns are due, but did not say how he would do it.
White House spokesperson Harrison Fields last month said any forthcoming IRS actions were independent of the president and that any tax status investigations were initiated before Trump‘s post.
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Israel Says It Intercepted Missile Fired from Yemen; Houthis Claim Responsibility
Houthi leader Abdul-Malik al-Houthi addresses followers via a video link at the al-Shaab Mosque, formerly al-Saleh Mosque, in Sanaa, Yemen, Feb. 6, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Khaled Abdullah
Israel’s military said on Saturday it intercepted a missile fired from Yemen and Houthi forces claimed responsibility for the attack, the third of its kind by the Iran-aligned group in 24 hours.
The Israeli military said sirens were activated in a number of areas in Israel after the missile was launched. No casualties or serious damage have been reported from the missile salvos.
The claim of responsibility, announced by the Houthis’ military spokesperson, came amid an intensification of US airstrikes on Houthi targets in Yemen.
In March, US President Donald Trump ordered large-scale strikes against the Houthis to reduce their capabilities and deter them from targeting commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
The deadly strikes on the group have been the biggest US military operation in the Middle East since Trump took office in January.
The Houthis say their attacks on Israel and Red Sea shipping are in solidarity with the Palestinians in the war between Hamas terrorists and Israel in Gaza.
The group pledged to expand its range of targets in Israel in retaliation for a renewed Israeli offensive in Gaza launched in mid-March, breaking a two-month-old ceasefire after the mediated talks on terms for extending it broke down.
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Former IRGC Chief: Trump Under Sway of Netanyahu, Neocons
Mohsen Rezaee, the secretary of Iran’s Expediency Discernment Council. Photo: Foad Ashtari via Wikimedia Commons.
i24 News – The former head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps took to X, formerly Twitter, on Saturday to make the claim that the foreign policy of US President Donald Trump is under the sway of “neocons” and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Before taking office in the White House, Trump claimed that he had plans for an immediate end to the wars; but the war in Ukraine continues, the ceasefire in Gaza and Lebanon has been broken, and the Israeli occupation army has occupied parts of Syria,” Mohsen Rezaee, now the head of the Supreme Council for Economic Coordination, wrote in Persian.
“Regarding negotiations with Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran has shown its seriousness and willingness to negotiate and reach an agreement. However, Trump and his team, influenced by Netanyahu and the neocons, are still in confusion and turmoil.”
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Report: Waltz’s Huddling with Netanyahu to Plan Iran Strike Angered Trump, Contributing to Ouster
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz meeting with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. January 28, 2025. Source: https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1884391528933777687
i24 News – As US President Donald Trump announced earlier in the week the decision to ouster his national security advisor, a report claims that Michael Waltz’s “intense coordination” with Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has contributed to his sacking.
According to The Washington Post, while “Waltz’s fate was sealed” by his apparently accidental inclusion of an Atlantic journalist on a sensitive Signal group chat in March, he also “upset” Trump after an Oval Office visit by Netanyahu, “when the national security adviser appeared to share the Israeli leader’s conviction that the time was ripe to strike Iran.”
The report quoted an administration insider as saying that Waltz “wanted to take US policy in a direction Trump wasn’t comfortable with because the US hadn’t attempted a diplomatic solution.”
The US is now engaged in nuclear talks with Iranian representatives.
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