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Trump Admin Slashes $400 Million In Federal Funding to Columbia, Citing Ivy League School’s ‘Inaction’ in the Face of Anti-Semitism

Following the announcement, Columbia suspended four students arrested after storming a Barnard building

Anti-Israel protesters at Columbia (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The Trump administration’s multi-agency task force to combat anti-Semitism announced the immediate cancellation of approximately $400 million in federal grants and contracts to Columbia University over its failure to curb campus anti-Semitism in the aftermath of Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack on Israel.

The departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, and Education, along with the General Services Administration, announced the move Friday. Two days earlier, Columbia student radicals stormed a Barnard College campus building—the second time in a week. Within hours of the funding cuts, Columbia suspended its four students who had been arrested while clashing with police during…

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