The Trump administration froze $790 million in federal funding for Northwestern, a White House official confirmed to The Daily. The freeze, first reported Tuesday by The New York Times, comes amid recent attacks on some of the nation’s elite universities by the Trump administration,

President Donald J. Trump’s administration froze $790 million in federal funding to Northwestern University, as part of a White House crackdown on anti-semitism on college campuses.

This week about $790 million in federal funding for Northwestern University and more than $1 billion for Cornell University has been frozen while the government investigates alleged civil rights violations at the schools,