The administration’s demands included auditing viewpoints of the student body to address antisemitism at the expense of federal funding.

The federal government on Monday night said it was freezing more than $2 billion in grants to Harvard University after the school said it would not accept Trump administration demands that included auditing viewpoints of the student body.

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Earlier Monday Harvard rejected the administration’s demands.

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,” the university’s X account said in a statement posted Monday. “Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal government.”