Blackstone CEO and Trump ally Stephen Schwarzman emerged as key broker between Harvard University and the White House over billions in frozen federal research funds. Schwarzman negotiated terms for restoring the funding, conditioning it on Harvard’s institutional adoption of Trump …
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The Department of Health and Human Services referred Harvard University to federal suspension and debarment proceedings that would exclude the school from all government contracts and federal funding—including billions in research grants and student aid—across all agencies. The move came three weeks …
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During a Cabinet meeting, Trump demanded Harvard University pay ’nothing less than $500 million’ to restore billions of dollars in frozen federal research funding, calling the university ‘very bad.’ The demand came after Harvard and the Trump administration restarted …
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