The White House announced on Tuesday that it has suspended federal funds exceeding $1 billion for Cornell University and about $790 million for Northwestern University amid ongoing investigations into dubious accusations of civil rights violations at both universities. The Trump administration has increasingly leveraged the threat of revoked grant funding to pressure universities into aligning...
Trump’s attacks on universities are “dangerous and politically motivated,” said New York Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. The White House announced Thursday that the Trump administration plans to withhold $510 million in federal funding from Brown University while it investigates the school’s response to alleged “antisemitism”— a term that is being weaponized to target protesters against...