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President Donald Trump indicated on Tuesday that his administration is close to finalizing a deal with Harvard University to restore $2.4 billion in federal grants.

“I guess we reached a deal with Harvard today. All you have to do is paper it, right, Linda?” Trump asked Education Secretary Linda McMahon in the Oval Office.

“Yes, sir. Paper it out,” she replied.

SETTLEMENT TALKS FALTER BETWEEN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND HARVARD: REPORT

“We’re in the process of getting very close, and Linda is finishing up the final details, and they’d be paying about $500 million,” Trump said. “And they’ll be operating trade schools, and they’ll be teaching people how to do AI and lots of other things. Engines, lots of things.”

Trump and Harvard have battled o

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