The Trump administration is freezing $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern University and more than $1 billion in funding to Cornell University, a White House official told CNN.
”The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump administration official said, referring to a federal statute that prohibits discrimination in programs and activities that receive federal funding.
For those of you scoring at home, you’ll notice all of these universities being investigated have one thing in common.
They’re located in blue states.
”The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” a Trump administration official said
FFS, reprinting this administration’s claim that they’re doing a “credible” investigation the same week they’re fighting to not have to return the man they say they mistakenly deported is just helping them spread misinformation, and letting them hide behind “a Trump administration” official instead of giving us their name (which would allow motivated readers to use publicly available information to see if that person has lied to us in the past, if they would have even been in a position to know anything about these investigations, etc.) is really egregiously bad journalism
Northwestern’s president sent an official email at 9 pm last night on this topic while being as sarcastic as ever
On the other R site there have been researchers at Cornell stating that they received stop-work orders
Shit is hitting the fan
