Harvard University will receive no new federal grants until it meets a series of demands from President Donald Trump’s administration, the Education Department announced Monday.The action was laid out in a letter to Harvard’s president and amounts to a major escalation of Trump’s battle with the Ivy League school.

The fund freeze does not affect student financial aid or federal loan programmes, but it could impact more than $1 billion annually in research funding. The US Department of Education had already frozen $2.

Harvard won't receive any new federal grants until it meets demands from the Trump administration, the Education Department said Monday.