Trump Team to Freeze Nearly $2 Billion at Cornell and Northwestern Universities

Douglas Belkin and Meridith McGraw
Wall Street Journal 

Excerpt: The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell and $790 million for Northwestern, according to a Trump administration official.

The federal government is investigating both schools for alleged civil-rights violations, as part of a rapidly expanding crackdown on elite research universities across the U.S. The latest funding at issue relates to grants and contracts with the departments of agriculture, defense, education and health and human services.

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