Does Harvard have a right to your money?

Did you know that the Trump administration froze over $2.2 billion in taxpayer funds for Harvard University? Now Harvard thinks it has a CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT to your money. Clearly, the people who run it didn’t receive a good College education. 

If they had, they would know they have no right to your money. Your money shouldn’t go to antisemitic, anti-American, and anti-Western Civilization bureaucrats and activists. 

And if they'd taken Hillsdale College's free online course, “Constitution 101: The Meaning and History of the Constitution,” they’d understand that a truly free society requires education to be independent of unaccountable administrative agencies. 

As you may know, Hillsdale College doesn’t take a single cent of federal funds. Unlike Harvard, we know there are rules that come with federal money. And we prefer to make an honest living.  

Larry P. Arnn 
President, Hillsdale College
Pursuing Truth and Defending Liberty Since 1844

In FY 2023, the federal government provided $59.6 billion to support research and development efforts at universities. Twenty universities spent more than a third of total federal R&D expenses in FY 2023. Johns Hopkins (Baltimore, MD) had the most federally funded R&D expenses, at $3.32 billion, 2.8 times higher than the next-highest university. Harvard University ended fiscal year 2023 with an operating surplus of $186 million, on an operating revenue base of $6.5 billion. It will receive no new federal grants in fiscal year 2025 until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration. The action was laid out in a letter to Harvard’s president freezing $2.2 billion in federal grants to Harvard, and Trump is pushing to strip the school of its tax-exempt status if it does not comply.