The Trump administration has frozen more than $1.8 billion in federal funding to Cornell University and Northwestern University amid ongoing Title VI investigations into campus anti-Semitism, administration officials said.
“Several agencies froze roughly $790M of federal funding & roughly $1.05B of federal funding from Northwestern and Cornell, respectively,” Fox News senior White House editorial producer Pat Ward reported Tuesday in an X post. The official told Ward that “the money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations.”
The New York Times on Wednesday confirmed the funding freeze, which involves grants and contracts from the Departments of Agriculture, Defense, Education, and Health and Human Services.
While both Cornell and Northwestern said they have not yet received official notice of the funding cut, Cornell officials did say they received over 75 stop-work orders…
