The Trump administration announced Tuesday that eight federal agencies will terminate the termination of $450 million in grants to Harvard University.

The latest funding cut comes as the government canceled $2.2 billion in federal funding to universities, bringing the total fine to about $2.65 billion.

"Harvard's campus was once a symbol of academic prestige, and has become a breeding ground for moral signals and discrimination," the Trump administration wrote in a statement. "This is not leadership; this is cowardice. This is not academic freedom; this is institutional disenfranchise."

These cuts represent the federal buckling against the oldest and wealthiest universities in the United States, first triggered by campus protests, a protest against Israel’s brutal military movement in Gaza – only in the days that follow, which only expands in the days that follow – but covers a wider range of resentment, which others believe are politically liberal.

Harvard has so far refused to surrender, and the university’s president, Dr. Alan Garber, is Jewish, said the previous attacks were “illegal demands” from the government’s “control of the people we hire and the people we teach.” The university refused to comply with government requirements outlined in a letter from the government last month, including closing programs for diversity, equity and inclusion; working with federal immigration authorities; and banning masks, which appear to be targeting pro-Palestinian protesters.

The school, with more than $53 billion in endowment funds, has filed a legal lawsuit against the initial $2.2 billion funding freeze, citing the university’s “threatening international students’ education and announced it is considering revoking Harvard’s 501(c)(c)(3) tax-exempt status.”

The Trump administration’s task force on anti-Semitism to combat anti-Semitism is aimed at reducing Harvard’s latest funding, “repeatedly failed to face widespread racial discrimination and troubled anti-Semitism harassment.”

They mentioned a series of so-called events, including a scholarship awarded by Harvard Law Review, which is evidence of “how radical Harvard has become”.

Even though Columbia students were arrested last week, protests across the country appear to be continuing. Dozens of students on the California State University campus are protesting against Gaza’s unification as they simultaneously call on their schools to evacuate from Israel.

Harvard recently published its own investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism and anti-Muslim bias on campus, but these self-regulation efforts do not seem to satisfy government officials.

The news that the Trump administration announced the new funding cuts was signed by Josh Gruenbaum, director of the General Services Agency of the General Services Administration; Sean R Keveney, acting general counsel for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; and Thomas E Wheeler, acting general counsel for the U.S. Department of Education.

Harvard did not respond to a request for comment.