WASHINGTON (TNND) — The ongoing conflict between the Trump administration and Harvard University intensified Monday as President Trump threatened to redirect $3 billion in federal grants from the university to trade schools.

This move follows the administration's previous freezing of $2.2 billion in grants, citing concerns over antisemitism on campus.

“Harvard bears a lot of responsibility for the demise of education in America and the substitution of propaganda, but the Trump administration often engages in conduct that’s overboard," said Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor emeritus.

The administration's actions are part of a broader effort to address what it perceives as rampant antisemitism at Harvard. Back in April, Harvard's president, Alan Garber, conceded concerns over antisemitism on campus were valid.

At Harvard, we have a real problem with antisemitism. We take it very seriously," said Garber in an April interview with NBC.

The administration has also demanded a list of all foreign students at Harvard, President Trump citing concerns on Truth Social on Sunday about students from countries "not at all friendly to the United States."

Trump posted again about the issue on Monday, writing, "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!"

Trump also expressed frustration over the percentage of foreign students at Harvard, telling reporters over the weekend, "They're 31%, but they refuse to tell us who the people are. We want to know who the people...now, a lot of the foreign students, we wouldn't have a problem with. I'm not going to have a problem with foreign students, but it shouldn't be 31%."

In response to Harvard's delay in providing the requested information, the Department of Homeland Security revoked the university's ability to admit international students. However, an Obama-appointed federal judge temporarily blocked this action, leaving the situation unresolved.

Harvard student Abdullah Shahid Sial expressed concern, saying, "It's as if we are being used as poker chips as collateral being thrown from the Trump administration between Harvard and the Harvard administration while not recognizing that we also happen to have lives and stories of our own."

In a letter to the campus community last Friday, President Garber stated, "for our refusal to surrender our academic independence and to submit to the federal government’s illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty, and our student body."