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Trump Moves To Cut Off All Federal Contracts With Harvard University

Charlie Kirk Staff

05/27/2025

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Trump Moves To Cut Off All Federal Contracts With Harvard University

The Trump administration is ordering every federal agency to scrub Harvard University off their contract lists amid a bitter fight over foreign student records.

On Tuesday, the General Services Administration will dispatch a directive demanding that agencies review roughly $100 million in remaining Harvard contracts and “identify alternative vendors,” according to a letter obtained by Fox News.

That haul includes a $527,000 deal for Harvard ManageMentor licenses awarded in September 2021, a $523,000 research contract on energy drinks and dietary health outcomes granted in August 2023, and a $39,000 agreement for graduate student research services inked in April 2025, a source told Fox News.

In the letter, GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service Commissioner Josh Gruenbaum said Harvard “continues to engage in race discrimination, including in its admissions process and in other areas of student life.” 

He said Harvard has shown “no indication” of reforming its admissions process, even after the Supreme Court ruled the university’s long-standing policy amounts to racial discrimination.

According to the lawsuit, among applicants in the top academic decile, the admission rate was 56% for African Americans, 31% for Hispanics, 15% for Whites, and just 13% for Asians, highlighting what critics call a blatant racial bias in Harvard’s selection process.

Gruenbaum said Harvard “now has to offer a remedial math course, which has been described as ‘middle school math’ for incoming freshmen.” He said that was a direct result “of employing discriminatory factors, instead of merit, in admission decisions.” 

Gruenbaum also mentioned potential violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 concerning Harvard’s hiring, promotion, compensation, and other personnel-related actions. He said discriminatory practices “have been exposed at the Harvard Law Review, where internal documents that have been made public detail the pervasive and explicit racial discrimination in the publication’s article selection and editor appointment process.”

Harvard has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to restore approximately $3.2 billion in federal grant funding that the Trump administration froze last month.

In a separate legal battle, the university secured a temporary restraining order on Friday preventing the government from revoking its certification under the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP). That certification allows Harvard to host international students on F-1 or J-1 visas. According to the university, losing SEVP status would affect over 7,000 visa holders—more than a quarter of its student population.

A brief hearing was held Tuesday morning in federal court in Boston, with the judge scheduling a follow-up session for Thursday to give both sides additional time to present their arguments.

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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