Trump has reportedly ordered the IRS to revoke Harvard's tax-exempt status, which would escalate his use of federal agencies against defiant institutions.

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After cutting off its funding, Trump has reportedly given the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) a potentially illegal order to revoke the university's tax-exempt status. Such a decision would mark an escalation in the Republican president's weaponization of federal government agencies against the people and institutions that defy it. Harvard University is in a standoff with Donald Trump after rejecting a series of demands from the president's administration, which critics view as an attack on the elite college for its reputation among conservatives as a bastion of liberal thought. The Trump administration's antisemitism taskforce this month sent the university a letter saying it had "failed to live up to both the intellectual and civil rights conditions that justify federal investment." Harvard's president, Alan Garber, refused to yield, saying, "[T]he university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights."