The Trump administration fixes $ 1 billion for Cornell and $ 790 million for Northwestern, those responsible

The Trump administration has frozen more than a billion dollars in funding for Cornell and $ 790 million for the North West in the midst of civil rights surveys in the two schools, two US officials said.

The financing break mainly involves subsidies and contracts with the departments of agriculture, defense, education and health and social services, according to officials, who spoke under the cover of anonymity to discuss the unexpected decision.

The movements are the most recent and most important of a rapid growing campaign against the American elite universities which led to the suspension or the review of the billions of federal funds in just over a month. Brown, Columbia, Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton.

Cornell and Northwestern are both faced with surveys on anti -Semitism allegations and on racial accusations of their efforts to promote diversity.

Cornell officials said in a statement that they had received more than 75 arrest working orders from the Ministry of Defense on Tuesday, but that they had no information to confirm that more than a billion dollars in funding had been suspended. The affected subsidies, they said, supported the research they have described as “deeply important for the defense, cybersecurity and American health”.

“We are actively looking for information from federal officials to find out more on the basis of these decisions,” said the joint declaration of Michael Kotlikoff, president of the university; Kavita Bala, the provost; And Robert Harrington, provost for medical affairs.