Skip to Main ContentHarvard Officials View Trump Demands As 'A Bribe': ReportSeveral elite universities have reached agreements with the Trump administration to restore federal funding that was frozen earlier this year. That list includes Columbia, Cornell and the University of Virginia.Harvard has not been one of them, and a new report from The New York Times unpacks some of the reasons why.When a deal appeared close over the summer, “Trump administration hard-liners swooped in, arguing inside the White House that the terms were too favorable to Harvard," The Times reports. "They pressed the case that at least some of the money should be classified as a fine, payable directly to the federal government.”Inside Harvard, the Times reports, “some view a cash payment as tantamount to a bribe.”Read more at The New York Times.See All UpdatesClose