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City manager briefs council on federal grant freezes and outlines local guidance on ICE interactions
Summary
City Manager provided an update on large federal grant freezes affecting Harvard, MIT and state programs and reviewed how Cambridge police will (and will not) participate in federal immigration operations, stressing transparency and coordination with the public and state authorities.
City Manager Yan Wong briefed the council on recent federal grant freezes and on local procedures for interactions between local police and federal immigration operations.
Wong told councilors that Harvard University and MIT have each frozen or lost billions in federal research grants, with Harvard described as having up to $3,000,000,000 of federal grants frozen or canceled and more than one hundred termination notices sent to researchers. He said the state has posted a dashboard of affected grants and that the Healy…
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