The Trump administration has also frozen or cut nearly $3 billion in federal funding, giving the reason of antisemitism at Harvard. The administration has claimed the university failed to protect Jewish students, particularly in the wake of the war in Gaza.

Axios Many venture capitalists are alarmed by the Trump administration's cuts to academic research, at Harvard and beyond, given that such funding has helped forge such foundational technologies as the internet and gene editing.

The Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland are seeking to join 16 other colleges in filing a friend-of-the-court brief that backs Harvard University in its legal battle with the Trump administration over federal funding.