An official on the administration’s antisemitism task force told the university that a letter of demands had been sent without authorization.

Harvard University was told by an unidentified official on Trump’s antisemitism task force that a letter of demands had been sent to the university without authorization, the New York Times reports, citing two unidentified people familiar with the matter.

The university has engaged with major donors including Michael Bloomberg and David Rubenstein in recent days.

Harvard University chose to counter the Trump administration’s assault on civil liberties and defend the First Amendment and academic independence. The university risks losing billions of dollars in federal funding as a result.