Harvard Students React to Judge's Decision to Reverse Trump Administration's Federal Funding Cuts

A federal judge in Boston has ordered the reversal of over $2.6 billion in federal funding cuts to Harvard University.

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00:00I think it's fantastic news. I think obviously it's very justified and that

00:06the administration's actions were overstepping their boundaries and were

00:10unlawful. Again, you know, a lot of that money is being used for life-saving

00:14research to advance, you know, research in Alzheimer's, cancer. It's being put to

00:18good causes and it's not like the advances that are being made from Harvard

00:22are insular. They're to help the general public. It's to help, you know, take care

00:27of future patients to make sure that they're able, you know, to take on these

00:31diseases, you know, head-on. So, and yeah, in general, it's just pushing the

00:36frontiers of knowledge. So, I think it's really exciting news. I think it's

00:42probably going to be appealed, but I hope that it holds true, but I think it's a

00:46good start. I think in general, it's just, it's going to inject that energy that, you

00:50know, the Harvard research community needs and a lot of that, you know, comes

00:53through funding. I'm hoping that, you know, a silver lining we can take from this is

00:56that I think what the research community has shown is that it can really come

01:00together in these difficult times and fight back and to stand for what is

01:05right. And yeah, I'm looking forward to it now. Yeah. Honestly, that makes me very

01:11relieved because I have like big research goals. I know other people here also have

01:14like research goals. They want to have their projects funded. They want to have

01:18their own startups. And these are really cool ideas that I think need to be

01:21supported. And because we obviously have this funding, like these dreams and

01:25passions are going to come true that otherwise wouldn't have. But it made me

01:28happy to know that like the judicial system is sticking up for us and that

01:33they'll have our back and they're always gonna like fight for the truth and fight

01:36for an institution that also cares about the truth. So something I've been

01:39passionate about is heart disease, which affects 51% of the U.S.

01:42population. So I've been wanting to create like custom cell therapies for heart

01:47disease. And obviously like that needs funding, that needs support. So specifically for

01:52me, this funding not being cut is funding that can come towards my project, come

01:56towards my goals. And hopefully in the future, like this is a goal that can

01:59like become realized and enter the market.