Trump Admin Freezes Over a Billion to Two Universities, Under Investigation

The Trump administration just yanked $1 billion for Cornell and nearly $800 million for Northwestern.

Turns out they’re now under Title VI investigations. Basically it deals with discrimination.

The freeze hits major grants from agencies like Defense, Education, and HHS.

The real question is, why was the government giving these schools over $1 billion dollars in the first place?!

Are they not already getting millions by price gouging their students by way of expensive tuitions?

Trump admin freezes $1B in federal funding to Cornell, $790M to Northwestern amid investigations into both schools https://t.co/CuurXZMEVq pic.twitter.com/zwnEfUa1DW

— New York Post (@nypost) April 9, 2025

Looks like gravy trains are stopping all over the place now that President Trump has arrived.

New York Post reports:

The Trump administration is freezing more than $1 billion in federal funds to Cornell and $790 million in funding for Northwestern University in response to civil rights investigations at both schools.

“The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump admin official told Fox News.

The pause largely involves grants and contracts to both schools with the departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education and Health and Human Services, two administration officials told the New York Times.

A spokesperson for Northwestern told The Post they haven’t received any notice from the federal government regarding a funding freeze – stating they were informed of President Trump’s supposed decision by members of the media.

“Federal funds that Northwestern receives drives innovative and life-saving research, like the recent development by Northwestern researchers of the world’s smallest pacemaker, and research fueling the fight against Alzheimer’s disease,” the rep for Illinois institution said.

“This type of research is now at jeopardy. The University has fully cooperated with investigations by both the Department of Education and Congress.”

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Both Cornell and Northwestern were both included on a list of 60 colleges and universities that the Department of Education’s civil rights arm warned earlier this month could have federal funding taken away.

Here’s one of the “bright” students that Cornell is cranking out.

Our government was giving them over $1 billion to create this:

“Liberalism maintains and upholds power, white supremacy, capitalism and an imperialism, US imperialism,” says a Cornell student and grad worker who organized and participated in pro-Hamas protests and encampment at the university.

Momodou Taal is a British-Gambian PhD student… pic.twitter.com/ZAaufh0X5y

— I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸 (@ImMeme0) March 12, 2025