It’s not official yet, but sources tell the NY Times:
The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in funding for Cornell and $790 million for Northwestern amid civil rights investigations into both schools, two administration officials said.
The funding pause involves mostly grants and contracts with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the unannounced decision.
The moves are the latest in a rapidly escalating campaign against the nation’s elite universities that has resulted in more than $3.3 billion in federal funds suspended or canceled. The other schools that have had funds frozen include Brown, Columbia, Harvard, Penn and Princeton.
MORE TO FOLLOW
The NY Post and Fox News are reporting the same:
“The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump admin official told Fox News.
Title VI bars discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin. Both the Biden administration and now the Trump administration recognized “shared ancestry” as falling under these categories, and that is the basis for enforcement actions as to antisemitism.
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