Prestigious US universities create a front against Trump
Several prestigious US universities have formed a coordinative body to combat President Donald Trump’s administration policies, the Wall Street Journal said last night.
The unofficial group has so far entered around ten universities, including the prestigious higher education institutions from the League of Bill. Most of them are in federal states where the Democrats are in power. According to sources, the group will coordinate a strategy and decide to what extent it is ready to make concessions to the federal government.
Universities plan to defend academic independence, especially after the White House has begun to interfere with their work, related to students’ admission, staff and teaching organization.
Harvard filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration last week, demanding the freezing of federal funding of $ 2.2 billion, accusing the White House of retaliation for « constitutional rights protection ».
Universities do not like the fate of some US law firms, which Trump has set out to work in the trials against him and have made trials, commented.
« The universities want to make sure that other educational institutions will not conclude agreements that would create a worrying precedent that would put pressure on others, » said people familiar with the initiative.
The Trump administration is afraid of not joining the resistance against her, as it is much more difficult to negotiate with the United Front. The White House did not respond to the commentary request.
