The Trump administration is reportedly pausing some $210 million in federal funding to Princeton University while it investigates potential antisemitism on the campus of the Ivy League School.
“Princeton has perpetuated racist and antisemitic policies,” a Trump administration official told the Daily Caller on Monday.
The official noted that the decision to suspend the funds bound for the elite New Jersey school does not mean that the administration’s antisemitism probe has concluded, according to the outlet.
Princeton was one of 60 colleges and universities that the Department of Education’s civil rights arm warned earlier this month could have federal funding taken away over alleged antisemitic discrimination and harassment on campus.
The university, which has an endowment of more than $34 billion, received $456 million in funding from government grants and contracts last year, according to the school’s annual report.
The Anti-Defamation League gave Princeton an “F” grade last year for the way it handles antisemitism on campus.
The investigation into antisemitism at Garden State school dates back to the Biden administration, the Daily Caller reported.
The probe was launched in April of 2024 after Zachary Marschall, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website Campus Reform, filed a complaint with the DOE over Princeton’s alleged failure to respond to antisemitism on campus.
Marschall cited an Oct. 25, 2023, anti-Israel protest at the university – just weeks after the Hamas terrorist attack on the Jewish State – where he claimed chants of “Intifada” and “Brick by brick, wall by wall, apartheid has got to fall” were heard.
”The violent words of these protesters completely disregard the atrocities Hamas has already committed and promises to commit in the future against the people of Israel, including raping, murdering, and kidnapping civilians,” Marschall wrote in the complaint, according to Campus Reform.
The Department of Education and Princeton University did not respond to The Post’s request for comment.
President Trump’s Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism, which includes the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services and the General Services Administration, previously froze about $400 million in federal funds from Columbia University over antisemitism concerns.
Earlier this month, Columbia University agreed to adhere to nine preconditions to gain back its federal funding.
The Trump administration is currently reviewing the changes as it weighs whether or not to give the New York Ivy League School back its money.
On Monday, the Trump administration announced that the antisemitism task force is also probing more than $8.7 billion worth of multi-year federal grant commitments with Harvard University.
That review will also extend to $255 million in contracts that Harvard has with the federal government, according to the DOE.
The Trump administration is using Title VI of the Civil Rights Act — which prohibits institutions of higher education from receiving federal money if they participate in or enable discrimination based on race, national origin, religion or other characteristics — to hold back the taxpayer-funded grants.
