The US President is considering taking Harvard $ 3 billion. “What would it be for a great investment for the USA”
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he was considering taking away the federal grant of $ 3 billion and transferring these funds to American vocational schools.
“What would it be for a great investment for the USA, and so much needed !!!” – Trump wrote in his Social social network.
On Friday The Federal Court in the USA temporarily blocked the administration decision to take the right to accept foreign students from Harvard University. It was the next edition of the US administration offensive, started in April and aimed at prestigious American universities.
In past weeks, the Trump's administration froze about 3 billion federal grants for Harvard. The university turned to court, fighting to restore financing. Trump also threatened the university to receive a status allowing him to be exempted from tax and accused him of anti -Semitism and a threat to democracy.
The attacks of Donald Trump's administration on prestigious American universities are harmful to the US science and economy, they also limit the “soft power” of this country – writes in “Guardiana” prof. Princeton University Jan-Werner Mueller. It is above all a “act of self -destruction” for the USA – says “Economist”.
Mueller, a historian of ideas, a political scientist and lecturer in Princeton, as well as a commentator of “Guardian”, reminds in a Monday article that the Federal Court in the USA “at a record pace” has temporarily blocked the decision of the Trump administration to receive the right to receive foreign students from Harvard University.
It was the next edition of the US administration offensive, started in April and aimed at prestigious American universities. Unfortunately, Trump's attacks on universities will not end; This is part of his retort campaign not only towards higher education institutions, but also all the environments that have exposed him – warns Mueller.
Anticipating the President's wishes, the Ministry of Education announced that Harvard, the oldest university of the US, “does not report funds received from abroad”, “he has cones with China's communist party” and is “prosterrorist” – says the scientist.
The Trump administration deleted scientific grants worth billions of dollars; At Harvard and Columbia universities, work on important projects was suddenly suspended. The budget proposed by the President provides for a limitation by 50 percent. expenditure on the main research facilities. Trump's advisor Michael Katsios announced on May 19 that American science “must be shaken” because it has become “inefficient and sclerotic”, and scientists focus on matters such as “diversity, equality and inclusiveness” – reports “Economist”.
“Administration (Trump) significantly destroys science. The consequences will be bad for the whole world, but the highest price will pay the US,” says the British weekly.
The reluctance of the White House reached the “irrational extreme”, and research related to public health and climate is exposed to particularly intense attacks, which the administration perceives “attempts to limit American freedoms”.
As a result, expenditures on vaccine and climate change will be the most limited. Some research projects in various areas were also suspended overnight, “from looking for a drug for Alzheimer's disease to quantum physics” – explains “Economist”.
Half of the Nobel Prize winners live in the USA for achievements in exact sciences; Four out of the top ten world universities in terms of research in the field of these sciences are American universities. When there is a stagnation in scientific research in the US, the whole world will feel it – emphasizes the weekly.
On April 30, during the meeting of his office, Trump announced that students, lecturers and attitude of people associated with universities “are not American”. The head of the President's campaign was joined by the head of the National Security Ministry Kristi Noem, who promised to eradicate “evil of anti -Americanism” from the university and “more widely understood” society – reminds Mueller.
Trump writes on his Social Social social platform that Harvard is a “threat to democracy” and exposes innocent young Americans to contacts with “crazy madmen” – reports the commentator of “Guardian”. “Trump in the unprecedented amok of national self -destruction deals with blocking research on cancer treatment, destroying + soft power + America,” adds Mueller.
Paul Krugman, an economic Nobel laureate, points out on his blog that economic implications also have the destruction of universities and limiting research funds. They cause jobs and the entire business and research ecosystem that arose around prestigious universities, which includes, among others Incubators of technology companies or medical facilities.
“There will be no innovation without intellectual ferment,” emphasizes Krugman.
“Economist” reminds that the scale and quality of American scientific achievements is an inalienable component of the power of this country, as well as one of its sources. Now, when the exodus of outstanding scientists begins, Americans do “taking a step back in a republic built on the freedom of thinking, i.e. on the values of enlightenment” – warns the weekly. (PAP)
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