The Trump administrator takes a break $ 1 billion from Cornell, $ 790 million from the North -Oovest between civil rights investigation: relationship
THE Trump Administration He has put a freezing on over $ 1 billion in federal funding at Cornell University, as well as another 790 million dollars from Northwestern University for potential civil rights investigations in both prestigious schools, according to reports.
The New York Times reported that two administration officials confirmed that the funding of both schools had been frozen.
The publication learned by the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity that freezing affects the subsidies and contracts connected to the agricultural departments, education, defense and health and human services.
Northwestern University He told Fox News Digital that he was informed of freezing by media members.
Campus della Northwestern University in Evanston, ill. (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
“The University has not received any official notification from the Federal Government,” said Northwestern.
The potential freezing could hit the university hard, he said.
“The federal funds that Northwestern receive guide innovative and life-saving research, such as the recent development by north-western researchers of the smallest pacemaker in the world and the research that feeds the fight against Alzheimer’s disease,” added Northwestern. “This type of research is now at risk. The University has collaborated with the investigations of both the Department of Public Education and the Congress.”
According to reports, Cornell University had $ 1 billion in funding detained by the Trump administration. (Ap photo/ted shaffrey, file)
Cornell and the White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s comment request.
The freezing arrives less than a week after the Trump administration stopped for a billion dollars in federal funding at Brown University for his Answer to anti -Semitism From the invasion of Hamas of Israel’s 2023.
An official of the White House confirmed that almost $ 510 million assigned to the University of the Ivy League through federal contracts and subsidies are on the line, even if Brown has declared that he has not “any information to confirm what is reported”.
Ivy League schools received $ 6.4 billion in federal funding in 2024
President Donald Trump suspended federal funding for almost all Ivy League schools. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)
President Donald Trump He suspended federal funding for each Ivy League, as well as Penn and Dartmouth, for investigations on anti-Israeli protests that took place in their campus since October 2023. Funding for dozens of other universities have also been influenced by investigations for the same reason.
Columbia University, which had taken over $ 400 million in federal funding, was the first Ivy League to lose money for her inability to make Jewish students feel safe on the campus. The University sold to the requests of the Trump administration at the end of last month in the hope of restoring the loan.
This week, a Federal Anti -Semitism Task Force has announced a review of Harvard’s federal grants and contracts, for a value of almost $ 9 billion, since the university must face an investigation into the anti -Semitism of the campus and Princeton University has confirmed that dozens of its research grants have been interrupted.
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The Trump administration has promised to be more aggressive Final campus anti -Semitism After saying that President Joe Biden did not consider universities responsible for their violent protests.
The administration also made moves to hold and deport foreign students who participated or orchestrated anti-Israeli protests in American universities.
Elizabeth Pritchett and The Associated Press of Fox News Digital have contributed to this relationship.
