Baccarelli's stated goal was to provide an update on the school's financial crisis. Of Harvard's schools, HSPH has been by far the most reliant on government grants-and so was the hardest hit by the Trump administration's cuts to federal research funding. In the spring, essentially overnight, the school lost about $200 million in support. Although a federal judge has ruled that those grant terminations were illegal, the school's future relationship with the federal government remains uncertain.