Harvard University President Alan Garber fought back against President Trump’s renewed threat to revoke the school’s tax-exempt status, saying in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that the move would be “highly illegal” and “destructive to Harvard.

The nation’s oldest university is not sitting idly as President Donald Trump threatens to revoke its tax-exempt status and cut it off from federal funding. Harvard University President Alan Garber said Friday that Trump’s threats to politicize higher education were “highly illegal” and that removing the school’s tax-exempt status would be “destructive” to both Harvard and higher education at large.

Harvard University president Alan Garber has warned of an “existential threat” to the US education sector as Trump renewed his pledge to strip the university’s tax-exempt status.