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Peter Doocy of FNC just asked Press Sec Leavitt "Why do these Ivy League universities get so much money from the government?"

As it happens, Harvard just changed their homepage to attempt to answer that question.

www.harvard.edu
Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
www.harvard.edu
April 15, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Good for Tufts!
NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...
April 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Foreign governments are trying to lure US scientists to move abroad as the Trump administration roils the research world with funding cuts and blacklists of some fields. Governor Maura Healey has raised the alarm in Massachusetts.
Healey sounds alarm over foreign recruiting of Mass. scientists - The Boston Globe
Countries in the Middle East and Europe, as well as China, are telling Massachusetts scientists, “We’ll give you a lab, we’ll give you staff,” Governor Healey said.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Kind of feels like there wasn’t a mandate to destroy the health insurance program that covers 24% of Americans in order to fund a giant tax giveaway for billionaires and corporations, but maybe it’s just me.
February 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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This is how it’s done.
Gov. Mills: I’ll comply with the state and federal laws

Trump: We are the federal law. You better do it because you’re not going to get any federal funds.

Gov Mills: See you in court
February 21, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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This is going to go on at many universities - the uncertainty will lead to fewer graduate programs. It will hobble scientific research which appears to be the goal.
February 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
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I am going to be so pissed if--after everything--I do, in fact, die of dysentery.
February 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Cuts to the NIH are a strategy to strangle research universities not “reduce waste”
February 8, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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In Connecticut -

NIH FUNDING:
$770M

JOBS SUPPORTED:
6609

ECONOMIC ACTIVITY SUPPORTED:
$1.68B
February 8, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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NIH doesn’t just support infectious disease research—it drives breakthroughs in cancer, childhood diseases, heart disease, diabetes & more.

Thanks to NIH, we have:
💉 Cancer immunotherapy
❤️ Cholesterol-lowering statins
🩸 Insulin for diabetes

Investing in NIH = investing in life-saving discoveries.
February 8, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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February 5, 2025 at 5:59 PM