I don’t think we should be giving Harvard nearly this much money to begin with, but I do wonder what the plan is going forward. Are we just getting out of the domestic science game? I don’t for a second think we need to funnel everything toward the elite schools like Harvard, but what does excellence in academics look like under a Trump Presidency? Strict adherence to the government’s beliefs or freedom to cultivate innovation as a University sees fit (but ideally with less public money and more scrutiny on its excesses).