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(NewsNation) — The Trump medication is cracking down connected elite universities by withholding national funding that has agelong flowed to immoderate of the wealthiest acquisition institutions successful the world.
Earlier this week, more than $1 billion successful national backing for Cornell University and astir $790 cardinal for Northwestern University were frozen while the authorities investigates alleged civilian rights violations astatine some schools.
It was the Trump administration's latest propulsion to chopped disconnected wealth from elite colleges, a database that already included Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.
"Can you ideate the wealth we wage Harvard? They person a $60 cardinal fund, and we're giving them $8 billion," Trump said Thursday.
Trump's backing combat has largely centered around the universities' usage of DEI initiatives, arsenic good arsenic allegations of anti-semitism.
But it has besides kick-started a broader speech astir wherefore American taxpayers assistance money universities with endowments worthy billions of dollars to statesman with.
"I'm not definite (Trump's) wholly right, but if you're not paying that overmuch attraction to it, you're like, 'well that doesn't marque sense," NewsNation contributor Chris Cillizza said regarding payer funds going to elite institutions.
Cillizza pointed retired that immoderate of that wealth goes toward technological and wellness research: "It's not each bad, it's conscionable a batch of money."
That said, Cillizza, a Georgetown University graduate, acknowledged that elite campuses bash endure from "unity of thought" and would payment from much ideological diversity.
"You should person your views challenged successful an intellectual, thoughtful way," Cillizza said.
He said he's successful favour of "expanding the clientele" of radical who tin spell to high-end schools.
Watch the speech with NewsNation's Leland Vittert and Chris Cillizza successful the subordinate above.
