Trump's week in review: From healthcare fraud takedown to the Big Beautiful Bill

By Ryan Foley, Christian Post Reporter Saturday, July 05, 2025

1. Trump admin. finds Harvard in violation of federal civil rights law 

In a statement published Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Trump administration’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism had concluded that Harvard University violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits institutions that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin in their programs or activities.

Harvard and its subrecipients received $794 million in federal funding from fiscal year 2023 through 2025. 

Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon and other administration officials wrote the school a letter Monday outlining various “findings of fact” leading to the conclusion that “Harvard has been in some cases deliberately indifferent, and in others has been a willful participant in anti-Semitic harassment of Jewish students, faculty, and staff.” 

The letter noted the treatment that Jewish students, faculty and staff were subject to following the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks in Israel. After Hamas attacked Israel, radical student factions led anti-Israel protests and assaulted Jewish students and staff, and vandalized the campus with antisemitic imagery. The Trump administration added that anti-Israel demonstrators who “instilled fear in, and disrupted the studies of, Jewish and Israeli students” received “lax and inconsistent discipline.”

HHS Office of Civil Rights Director Paula Stannard alleged that “Harvard’s public pledges to improve its disciplinary framework for harassment and misconduct are inadequate to meaningfully address these serious findings.”

The Trump administration warned Harvard that its failure to make “adequate changes immediately” will result in “the loss of all federal financial resources” and “affect Harvard’s relationship with the federal government.”