The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell and $790 million to Northwestern.
The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell and $790 million to Northwestern, as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools, according to two White House officials.
«On Monday, several Trump administration agencies froze roughly $790M of federal funding and roughly $1.05B of federal funding from Northwestern and Cornell, respectively», a senior administration official . «The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations.»
The funding pause mostly involves grants from and contracts with the Department of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services, according to White House officials.
Northwestern said in a statement to ABC that it was informed by «members of the media» that the federal government plans to «freeze a significant portion of our federal funding. The University said it «has not received any official notification.»
«Federal funds that Northwestern receives drive innovative and life-saving research», the University said. «This type of research is now at jeopardy.
