President Donald Trump escalated his fight with Harvard University over the past week, threatening to pull more federal funding.
The administration had already frozen more than $2 billion in federal grants and contracts as it demanded the private university make sweeping changes to its hiring practices and curriculum to bring them in line with Trump’s ideological goals.
After Harvard pushed back, the administration is considering pulling an additional $1 billion in funding, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal citing people familiar with the matter.
Here’s a mostly complete look at what else Trump, his administration and the GOP-controlled Congress have done over the last seven days:
• Threatened, again, to fire Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, leading to a spike in gold prices and a slide in the dollar.
• Lost at the Supreme Court, which issued a brief order to halt some deportation proceedings under the Alien Enemies Act.
• Closed a State Department office that tracked and countered disinformation from foreign governments.
• Signed fewer bills into law by this point of his term than any new president over the last seven decades.
• Disclosed that Trump raised $239 million for his inauguration, more than double the previous record, which he set in 2017.
• Held the White House Easter Egg Roll with a number of corporate sponsors, including Amazon and Meta.
• Reportedly planned to propose cutting all funding for Head Start, which provides early child care for low-income families.
• Told reporters he’s considering challenging the tax-exempt status of a nonprofit watchdog that has sued over his actions.
• Faced allegations that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had sent information about military operations on a second Signal chat. • Ousted another IRS commissioner, the fourth person to serve in the role in the last three months. • Ended the first quarter of the year with an average 45% approval rating, lower than all other presidents since World War II. • Doubled down on accusations that Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who the administration earlier said was deported mistakenly, is a gang member. • Wrote, in a piece by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, that visiting America is a “privilege.” • Said that the administration can’t give everyone it wants to deport a trial because that would take “without exaggeration, 200 years.” • Attacked former President Joe Biden, judges and “Radical Left Lunatics” in an Easter message posted on social media. Subscribe to Trump’s First 100 Days newsletter for weekly updates on and expert insight into the key issues and figures defining his second term.
Ryan Teague Beckwith is a newsletter editor for MS NOW.
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