‘Climate anxiety’: Trump cuts funding for Princeton’s K-12 climate change program

April 14, 2025 1 min read

Matt Lamb 
College Fix

Excerpt: Taxpayers will no longer subsidize a Princeton University program that induces “climate anxiety” among K-12 students, according to the Trump administration.

The Department of Commerce “announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University,” according to an April 8 news release. The decision followed “a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the Department’s financial assistance programs against National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s…current program objectives.”

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