Washington: The Trump administration on Monday announced a freeze on 2.2 billion US dollars in multi-year grants and a 60 million contract to Harvard University, hours after the university rejected a list of demands from the federal government.
Earlier in the day, Harvard refused to comply with the administration's demands to make sweeping changes to the univeristy's governance, hiring and admissions practices, noting that it will not "negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights."
