Harvard University asked a federal judge on Monday to issue a summary judgment ruling to unfreeze $2.5 billion in funding blocked by President Donald Trump's administration, which Harvard said was illegal.

Harvard officials, in a new court filing on Monday, detailed the extent of cuts that the Trump administration had made to a broad swath of university research projects.

A Pentagon director pleaded with Defense Department chiefs to save a Harvard-led project designed to boost warfighting. The official warned that the Trump administration’s cuts would pose “grave and immediate harm to national security.