President Trump said on Monday he is considering taking $3 billion in grant money away from Harvard and giving it to trade schools. “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land. What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!” Trump said. Per Reuters: Trump, a Republican, has frozen some $3 billion in federal grants to Harvard in recent weeks, complaining that it has hired Democrats, “Radical Left idiots and ‘bird brains'” as professors. Harvard, a private university, has sued to restore the funding, saying the cuts are an unconstitutional attack on its free speech rights and unlawful. Most of that grant money is appropriated by Congress for the National Institutes of Health to disburse to fund biomedical research after a lengthy application process by individual scientists, work that is not typically done at trade schools. It was not clear whether Trump was referring to Harvard grants his administration has already frozen. Harvard has said it was told that virtually all of its federal grant awards were revoked earlier in May, in a series of letters by the NIH, the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Energy, the Department of Defense and other agencies. The letters each said the grants were being suspended because they “no longer effectuate agency priorities.” “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. Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason!” Trump said. “The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN!’ he added. WATCH: BREAKING: President Trump says he’s considering STRIPPING $3 billion in federal grants from Harvard University to give to trade schools nationwide. I love this! Trump wrote on Truth Social: “I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very… pic.twitter.com/Z1xUD2RIsM — RedWave Press (@RedWave_Press) May 26, 2025 NBC10 Boston noted: Harvard has routinely described the allegations of antisemitism as untrue, and the actions taken by the government, including its previous revocation of $2.2 billion in grants, as unlawful. “We have seen Harvard subject to demand letter after demand letter after demand letter with little law cited, fewer facts relied upon,” Harvard Kennedy School professor Cornell William Brooks told NBC10 Boston last week.