The Trump administration announced in April that it was moving to freeze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University
When the Trump administration cut federal funding to Harvard University, it abruptly ended an estimated $180 million that the federal government had poured into US military projects at Harvard in recent years, according to an analysis from a defense software company.
The Trump administration announced in April that it was moving to freeze $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts to Harvard University. President Donald Trump said he was trying to force change at Harvard – and other top-level universities across the US – because in his view they have been captured by leftist “woke” thought and become bastions of antisemitism.
Some of the grants paid for military-specific medical research, studies on countering weapons of mass destruction and research on lasers, among numerous other topics, Reuters found.
The abrupt halt stopped years-long projects and upended programs spread across several universities, not just Harvard. In 2025 alone, an estimated 103 grants totaling about $14 million will grind to a halt, according to an analysis by Govini, a defense software company.
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