Brown University to see half a federal funds interrupted by the Trump administration

Washington (AP) – The Trump Administration plans to stop more than half a billion dollars of contracts and subsidies granted to Brown University, adding to a list of Colleges of the Ivy League This threatened their federal money following their responses to anti -Semitism, said a White House official on Thursday.

Nearly $ 510 million in federal contracts and subsidies are at stake, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and spoke under the guise of anonymity.

In an email Thursday to campus leaders, the Brown provost, Frank Doyle, said that the university was aware of “disturbing rumors” on government action on its research money. “Right now, we have no information to support any of these rumors,” said Doyle.

Brown would be the fifth Ivy League College targeted by the administration of President Donald Trump, who uses federal money to enforce his program in the colleges. Dozens of universities – including each Ivy League school, with the exception of Penn and Dartmouth – are faced with federal surveys on anti -Semitism following a wave of pro -Palestinian demonstrations last year.

Columbia University was the first targeted, lose $ 400 million In federal money with threats to terminate more if it did not make campus safer for Jewish students. School accepted several requests Of the government last month, including a overhaul of the student discipline rules and an examination of the Department of Studies of the Middle East of the School.

The government later suspended about $ 175 million In the federal funding of the University of Pennsylvania for a transgender swimmer who previously competed for the school. On Monday, a federal working group on anti -Semitism said that it was examining nearly $ 9 billion in federal subsidies and contracts Harvard University In the midst of an investigation into the anti -Semitism of the campus.

And Tuesday, Princeton University said the administration had interrupted dozens of its research grants.

Pressure has created a dilemma for American colleges, which are based on federal research funding as a Main source of income.

Trump’s administration has promised a more aggressive approach to campus anti -Semitism, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting schools take down. He opened new surveys in colleges and detained and expelled Several foreign students with links with pro-Palestinian demonstrations. A new assistant medicine teacher in Brown was deportee In Lebanon last month for having “openly admitted” to support a Hezbollah chief and attending his funeral, the Ministry of Internal Security said.

During the demonstrations of the campus of the last school year against the War of Israel-Hamas, Brown stood out from an agreement which he concluded with the militant students. In exchange for the dismantling of students, the university has committed to seeing its board of directors to vote on the advisability of run down that the demonstrators declared facilitated the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

Brown Society rejected the disinvestment proposal.

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The AP education writer, Collin Binkley, contributed. Mumphrey reported to Phoenix.

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