The Trump administration is planning to cancel all remaining federal contracts with Harvard University — a day after the president said he was pulling $3 billion in grants from the “very antisemitic” Ivy League school.
The fresh cuts — worth roughly $100 million — are detailed in a memo that will be fired off to all federal agencies early Tuesday, according to a copy of the letter obtained by The Post.
The letter, signed by the US General Services Administration, orders the agencies to start providing a list of contracts that will need to be canned.
It also instructs the agencies to “seek alternative vendors for future services where you had previously considered Harvard.”
The letter, in part, blames the move on Harvard’s inaction to crackdown on antisemitism on campus, as well as alleged “race discrimination” in its admission process.
“In light of this deeply troubling pattern, each agency should consider its contracts with Harvard University and determine whether Harvard and its services efficiently promote the priorities of the agency,” the memo states.
“We recommend that your agency terminate for convenience each contract that it determines has failed to meet its standards, and transition to a new vendor those contracts that could be better serviced by an alternative counterparty.”
If the agencies find Harvard is the only suitable option, the admin has ordered them to provide a reason for why the Ivy League should be kept on the federal government’s books, according to the letter, which was first reported on by the New York Times.
The move is slated to affect nine agencies, the outlet reported, though it wasn’t immediately clear which ones.
Among the contracts Harvard currently has with the government are a $49,858 contract with the National Institutes of Health that’s researching the effects of drinking coffee and a Homeland Security Department contract worth $25,800 for senior executive training.
“As you know, being a counterparty with the federal government comes with the deep responsibility and commitment to abide by all federal laws and ensure the safeguarding of taxpayer money,” the letter states.
“As fiduciaries to the taxpayer, the government has a duty to ensure that procurement dollars are directed to vendors and contractors who promote and champion principles of nondiscrimination and the national interest.”
So far, Trump has already frozen about $3.2 billion in grants and contracts with the elite school.
The administration, too, is fighting to kick out thousands of foreign students enrolled at the Ivy League.
It comes after Trump on Monday said he wanted to yank $3 billion in federal grants away from a “very antisemitic” university to instead invest in trade schools.
Trump blasted the school, too, for apparently stalling on his demand for a list of all its foreign students.
“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country,” he said in a Truth Social post.
