President Donald Trump said on Monday that he was pondering shifting $3 billion in federal grants away from Harvard University to trade schools nationwide. 

Trump’s comments come as his administration has been engaged in a weeks-long battle with Harvard over federal funding and admission of foreign students. The Trump administration has accused Harvard of violating federal civil rights law with its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) policies and handling of anti-Israel protests on campus.

“I am considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money away from a very antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS all across our land,” Trump posted on Truth Social on Monday. “What a great investment that would be for the USA, and so badly needed!!!”

In another post on Monday, Trump said that he was still waiting for Harvard to turn over its lists of foreign students attending the university, alluding to a move last week by his Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to block the school from admitting any more international students by revoking its Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification. 

“We are still waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard so that we can determine, after a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, how many radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not be let back into our Country. Harvard is very slow in the presentation of these documents, and probably for good reason! The best thing Harvard has going for it is that they have shopped around and found the absolute best Judge (for them!) – But have no fear, the Government will, in the end, WIN,” Trump wrote. 

Harvard filed a lawsuit on Friday challenging DHS’s revocation of Harvard’s capacity to enroll students from abroad, accusing the Trump administration of committing a “blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act.” 

U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs, an Obama appointee, blocked the freeze on foreign students on Friday while litigation on the case plays out. 

On Tuesday, the New York Times reported that the Trump administration plans to cancel another $100 million in federal contracts with Harvard after previously freezing more than $3 billion in federal funds. 

“Going forward, we also encourage your agency to seek alternative vendors for future services where you had previously considered Harvard,” the General Services Administration reportedly wrote in a draft letter to federal agencies. 

The letter instructs federal agencies to respond by June 6 with updates on cancelled contracts with Harvard or request temporary exceptions if the contract is essential and an alternative needs to be found. 

The Trump administration has tapped the Treasury Department to track down and halt the flow of money to foreign drug cartels.

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Michael Faulkender says the federal agency is choking off the cash flow that powers cartels’ human and drug smuggling operations by designating them as terrorists, he explained to The Daily Wire.

“One of the most important things that the president did upon coming into office was to declare a number of the narco groups terrorist organizations,” Faulkender told The Daily Wire. “What that does is it unleashes additional authorities at Treasury for us to better target some of the financial activities that these cartels are engaging in.”

Faulkender told The Daily Wire that the agency’s moves are cutting into the cartels’ flow of money, disincentivizing their human smuggling and drug-running operations.

“It’s one thing to have our partners at [the Department of Homeland Security] work on stopping the flow of people and drugs, but we can also use our financial tools to go after the money,” the Treasury official explained. “If the money is not flowing back south, then there’s less of an incentive to bring the drugs and the guns and some of the illicit activity up to the north.”

“Since the president took office, we’ve engaged in five different actions going after nine different entities for a total of 16 individuals,” he noted.

The Treasury Department unveiled sanctions on “two high-ranking members of the Mexico-based Cartel del Noreste,” a foreign terrorist organization formerly known as Los Zetas.

Cartel del Noreste “and its leaders have carried out a violent campaign of intimidation, kidnapping, and terrorism, threatening communities on both sides of our southern border,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent charged. “We will continue to cut off the cartels’ ability to obtain the drugs, money, and guns that enable their violent activities.”

That move follows the Treasury Department’s March announcement that it was imposing sanctions on six individuals and seven organizations believed to be laundering money for the Sinaloa Cartel, one of the world’s most notorious criminal organizations and a federally-designated foreign terror organization.

“We leveled sanctions against six individuals and seven entities involved in a money laundering operation, cutting off financing for these evil people,” Bessent said at the time. “Laundered drug money is the lifeblood of the Sinaloa Cartel’s narco-terrorist enterprise, only made possible through trusted financial facilitators like those we have designated today.”

Treasury also hit Brink’s Global Services, which specializes in transporting funds and other valuables for banks and other clients, with a $37 million civil penalty, alleging that the company moved money across the southern border without following anti-money laundering regulations. The company’s violations, the Treasury Department says, exposed “the U.S. financial system to a heightened risk of money laundering, including from narcotics trafficking and other illicit activity.”

Faulkender says the Trump administration isn’t just launching a whole-of-government approach to combat the cartels’ drug and human smuggling, but is also pushing the Mexican government to track and penalize the flow of cartel money.

“The president imposed tariffs on the Mexican government and on products that are coming in from Mexico to elicit participation and cooperation from the Mexican government, and so we are seeing the Mexican government willing to work with us to go after these financial networks that are enriching the cartels,” he told The Daily Wire, adding that the government is “monitoring the money flows, tracking it down, either putting a complete stop to it and, and seizing that money, or at the very least, making it a lot more expensive for them to move that money around and try to deter them from engaging in these kinds of actions.”