Harvard professors sue over Trump's review of $9 billion in funding

Stephen Mihm: The atomic bomb set the stage for the college funding fight

In recent weeks, the nation’s most selective universities have been waking up to a new reality: the billions of dollars in federal funding that have long sustained them now come with strings attached. The Trump administration has put Columbia, Harvard, and Princeton on notice, threatening to withhold research funds unless they accede to political demands. How did the nation’s elite research universities end up in such an exquisitely vulnerable p…

WilmerHale gets new allies in lawsuit against Trump administration

The Boston firm's complaint now has backing from hundreds of state AGs, former judges, law school professors and others.

A look at the universities with federal funding targeted by the Trump administration

Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts.

Harvard funding cuts will largely spare hospital partners, focus on Harvard itself, Trump administration says - The Boston Globe

"We do not set Harvard University’s policies with respect to its students, faculty, and other employees, or conduct on its campus," wrote Dr. Anne Klibanski, who leads the state’s largest health system.

Lawsuit filed after Trump’s budget office shuts down public information about spending • Virginia Mercury

OMB Director Russ Vought testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Jan. 15, 2025. (Screenshot from committee webcast)WASHINGTON — A nonprofit organization filed suit against the Trump administration on Monday, alleging its decision to stop posting budget documents in late March violates federal law. Protect Democracy Project’s case is the second lawsuit challenging the Office of Management and Budget’s c…

AGs sue to block clawback of pandemic funding

BOSTON — Massachusetts and other states are suing the Trump administration to block its clawback of federal funding to support academic recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.