Sri Lanka, April 15 -- The U.S. Department of Education on Monday (14) froze more than US$ 2 billion in federal funding for Harvard University, just hours after the school rejected President Donald Trump's demands that it make deep policy changes on diversity.

A Department of Education task force on combating antisemitism said in a statement that it was freezing US$ 2.2 billion US Dollars in multi-year grants and 60 million US Dollars in multi-year contract value to Harvard University.

The move marks a new level of contention between President Donald Trump's administration and American universities it accuses of being captured by the extreme left.

Trump's administration has frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding for ...