{"id":8783,"date":"2025-05-03T08:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-push-for-ig-probe-as-trump-targets-harvards-tax-status-2\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T08:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T08:23:32","slug":"democrats-push-for-ig-probe-as-trump-targets-harvards-tax-status-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/democrats-push-for-ig-probe-as-trump-targets-harvards-tax-status-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats push for IG probe as Trump targets Harvard&#8217;s tax status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and three other Democratic senators are urging the IRS&rsquo;s watchdog to investigate whether the Trump administration is illegally pressuring the agency to strip Harvard of its tax exemption. The request from Schumer and Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was first reported by Blue Light News less than two hours before President Donald Trump announced he would proceed with revoking Harvard&#8217;s exemption&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/05\/02\/congress\/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-ig-probe-00323172\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and three other Democratic senators are urging the IRS&rsquo;s watchdog to investigate whether the Trump administration is illegally pressuring the agency to strip Harvard of its tax exemption. The request from Schumer and Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) was first reported by Blue Light [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}