The Trump administration announced Monday that it would freeze $2.2 billion in multi-year grants and $60 million in multi-year contract value at Harvard University after the school said it would not follow policy demands from the administration.

A letter sent to Harvard on Friday by the Trump administration demanded that the university make a series of policy changes in order to continue to receive federal funding.

Harvard University has rejected a list of sweeping demands sent by the White House that asked the university to change many of its policies or risk losing billions of dollars in federal funding."The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,