White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt took a wild jab at Harvard College on Tuesday because the Trump administration continues to pile on its assaults, eyeing additional methods to drag funding from the Ivy League establishment.
“The president is extra occupied with giving that taxpayer cash to commerce colleges and packages and state colleges the place they’re selling American values however, most significantly, educating the following technology primarily based on abilities that we’d like in our financial system and our society,” she advised Fox Information’ Sean Hannity.
“Apprenticeships, electricians, plumbers — we’d like extra of these in our nation and fewer LGBTQ graduate majors from Harvard College and that’s what this administration’s place is,” she continued.
Moments earlier, Leavitt referred to the administration’s “frequent sense” coverage towards funding Harvard earlier than questioning why a college “pushing anti-American values” with a $53 billion endowment ought to obtain taxpayer funds.
After the White Home froze billions in federal funds and grants to the college final month, it’s now contemplating canceling all remaining federal contracts with the establishment, The New York Occasions first reported Tuesday.
Harvard and the White Home are locked in a authorized battle that noticed a federal decide on Friday block the Trump administration’s plan to bar the establishment from enrolling international college students.
The administration’s effort has sparked sharp criticism towards the president amongst Harvard’s worldwide pupil neighborhood.
President Donald Trump has just lately toyed with the concept of school college students taking up trades past their majors.
Earlier this month, he challenged College of Alabama graduates to not simply use their “abilities for monetary hypothesis” however to additionally apply their abilities towards “forging the metal and pouring the concrete of recent American factories, vegetation, shipyards, and even cities that are going up throughout our nation.”
Social media customers shortly clowned Leavitt’s feedback.