More than $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell and around $790 million for Northwestern have been frozen as the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at both universities

The Trump administration has frozen more than $1 billion in federal funding for a Central New York college, the White House announced late Tuesday.

The Trump administration has frozen over $1 billion in funding for Cornell University amid civil rights investigations of several New York Colleges by the U.S. Department of Education. “The money was frozen in connection with several ongoing, credible, and concerning Title VI investigations,” members of the administration told Fox News.