White House freezes funds for Cornell and Northwestern in latest crackdown

Pauses come after Trump officials sent warning letters to 60 US universities for failure to protect Jewish students'

In early March, the Trump administration sent warning letters to 60 US universities it said were facing potential enforcement actions" for what it described as failure to protect Jewish students on campus" in the wake of widespread pro-Palestinian protests on campuses last year.

The president of Cornell University, which was on the list, responded with a defiant op-ed in the New York Times, arguing that universities, and their students, could weather debates and protests over the war in Gaza.