The Trump administration is targeting the Ivy League university under a law typically used to go after government contractors for swindling.

The Trump administration is cutting another $450 million in federal grants to Harvard University – on top of $2.2 billion already slashed – tightening even further its ideological pressure on America’s oldest and wealthiest university amid a broader battle over control of US college campuses.

Harvard Medical School urged researchers to keep working on their projects despite the latest wave of federal grant funding cuts. Why it matters: Harvard University is bracing for the Trump administration's efforts to squeeze any public funding out of Harvard's coffers — consider it death by a thousand grant cuts.