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Rachel Leingang

Trump repeats legally dubious threat to ‘take away’ Harvard’s tax-exempt status

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Harvard University on 16 April 2025. Photograph: Sophie Park/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Donald Trump said again on Friday that he would be “taking away” Harvard’s tax-exempt status as a non-profit in a legally questionable move that escalates his ongoing feud with the elite university.

“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump wrote on Truth Social in a more direct message than a post in April when he said “perhaps” the college should lose its tax-exempt status.

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