President Donald Trump called for Harvard University to pay a sweeping $500 million settlement to restore its federal funding, saying the elite university has been “very bad.”

“We want nothing less than $500 million from Harvard. Don’t negotiate, Linda,” Trump said to Education Secretary Linda McMahon during a Cabinet meeting on Tuesday.

He continued, “They’ve been very bad. Don’t negotiate.”

Harvard has been one of the Trump administration’s biggest targets, and an agreement between the two parties has so far proven elusive.

Harvard did not immediately respond to CNN’s request for comment.

The administration has argued it’s cracking down on antisemitism on campus amid the Israel-Hamas war. But Harvard, the only school to take on the White House directly in court, has become the epice

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