The Trump administration is freezing more than $ 1 billion in federal funds for Cornell and $ 790 million in funds for the Northwestern University in response to civil rights investigations in both schools.
“The money froze in relation to several in ongoing investigations, credible and about Title VI,” said a Trump administrator official to Fox News.
Pause largely implies subsidies and contracts to both schools with the departments of agriculture, defense, education and health and human services, two administration officials said to New York Times.
This is the last movement of the Trump administration to obtain funds from the IVY league of elite of the Nation on breach of the laws against discrimination.
Cornell and Northwestern did not immediately respond to comments requests
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