{"id":25397,"date":"2025-04-23T22:18:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=25397"},"modified":"2025-04-23T22:18:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T22:18:21","slug":"donald-trump-accuses-us-universities-of-violating-foreign-donation-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=25397","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump accuses US universities of violating foreign donation laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=82efde8f-bd8d-4343-af08-90d7164b2cb7&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Donald Trump has accused leading US universities, including Harvard, of breaking federal laws on large foreign donations, escalating his attack on the country\u2019s educational establishment. <\/p>\n<p>The president signed an executive order on Wednesday directing federal agencies to enforce laws on foreign gifts to American <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/education\" data-trackable=\"link\">universities<\/a> \u2014 although it was not immediately clear how, or if, any school had violated the rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are currently laws on the books requiring certain disclosures of universities when they accept large foreign gifts. We believe that certain universities, including, for example, Harvard, have routinely violated this law,\u201d White House staff secretary Will Scharf said, speaking in the Oval Office of the White House. \u201cThis law has not been effectively enforced,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also signed an executive order overhauling the university accreditation system, a move that threatens even more federal funding on top of the billions of dollars he has already frozen. On the campaign trail, he promised to use such an order, calling it his \u201csecret weapon\u201d, to force universities to align with his political ideology.<\/p>\n<p>Accreditation is granted by third-party companies, setting standards that universities must meet to unlock federal financial aid, including student loans and Pell grants. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of those third-party accreditors have relied on a sort of woke ideology to accredit universities instead of accrediting based on merit and performance,\u201d Scharf said as he gave Trump the order to sign.<\/p>\n<p>Linda McMahon, education secretary, said: \u201cAmerica\u2019s higher education accreditation system is broken. A small number of institutional accreditors \u2014 private, nongovernment entities \u2014 decide which institutions and their programmes qualify to receive over $100bn annually in Pell grants, federal student loans and other taxpayer-subsidised higher education funding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/82efde8f-bd8d-4343-af08-90d7164b2cb7\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":25398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}