Harvard's Battle With Trump Escalates as Research Money Is Suddenly Canceled

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : " Harvard's amended complaint, filed Tuesday, now includes the new grant terminations and names 10 federal agencies as defendants, including the Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, and the Department of Defense.
50% : Since then, federal grants to Harvard have been frozen, said Bryn Austin, who chairs the department of social and behavioral sciences in Harvard's T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
49% : The additional cuts don't bring any "wildly new" legal arguments to the table, said Neal Hutchens, a lawyer and professor of higher education at the University of Kentucky.
44% : But they do strengthen the university's arguments that grant cancellations will harm Harvard and its affiliates, and that the administration's actions defy due process, violate the First Amendment, and skew from legal standards under the Administrative Procedures Act, he said.
44% : " Within the School of Public Health, the climate "has already been one of anticipatory anxiety and fear" because of the school's equity-related work, said Ariel Beccia, an instructor whose NIH grant was terminated in March.

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