Trump admin pauses $1B from Cornell, $790M from Northwestern amid civil rights investigation: report

The Trump medication has enactment a frost connected implicit $1 cardinal successful national backing from Cornell University, arsenic good arsenic different $790 cardinal from Northwestern University implicit imaginable civilian rights investigations astatine some prestigious schools, according to reports.

The New York Times reported that 2 medication officials confirmed the backing from some schools had been frozen.

The work learned from the officials who spoke connected information of anonymity that the frost affects grants and contracts connected to the Agriculture, Education, Defense and Health and Human Services departments.

Northwestern University told Fox News Digital that it was informed of the frost by members of the media.

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Northwestern University field successful Evanston, Ill.  (Chris Walker/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)

"The University has not received immoderate authoritative notification from the national government," Northwestern said.

The imaginable frost could deed the assemblage hard, it said.

"Federal funds that Northwestern receives thrust innovative and life-saving research, similar the caller improvement by Northwestern researchers of the world’s smallest pacemaker, and probe fueling the combat against Alzheimer’s disease," Northwestern added. "This benignant of probe is present astatine jeopardy. The University has afloat cooperated with investigations by some the Department of Education and Congress."

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Cornell University has reportedly had $1 cardinal successful backing withheld from the Trump administration. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Cornell and the White House did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment.

The frost comes little than a week aft the Trump medication paused implicit a cardinal dollars successful national backing to Brown University implicit its effect to antisemitism since Hamas’ 2023 penetration of Israel.

A White House authoritative confirmed that astir $510 cardinal awarded to the Ivy League University done national contracts and grants is connected the line, though Brown said it had "no accusation to substantiate what’s being reported."

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President Donald Trump has suspended national backing to astir each Ivy League school. (Sean Rayford/Getty Images)

President Donald Trump has suspended national backing to each Ivy League, too Penn and Dartmouth, implicit investigations into anti-Israel protests that person taken spot connected their campuses since October 2023. Funding for dozens of different universities has besides been impacted by investigations for the aforesaid reason.

Columbia University, which had much than $400 cardinal successful national backing taken away, was the archetypal Ivy League to suffer wealth implicit its nonaccomplishment to marque Jewish students consciousness harmless connected campus. The assemblage caved to demands from the Trump medication precocious past period successful hopes of restoring the funding. 

This week, a national antisemitism task unit announced a reappraisal of Harvard's national grants and contracts, worthy astir $9 billion, arsenic the assemblage faces an probe into field antisemitism, and Princeton University confirmed dozens of its probe grants person been halted. 

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The Trump medication has promised to beryllium much assertive successful ending field antisemitism aft saying President Joe Biden did not clasp universities accountable for their convulsive protests.

The medication has besides made moves to detain and deport overseas students who participated successful oregon orchestrated anti-Israel protests astatine American universities.

Fox News Digital’s Elizabeth Pritchett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.