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- usa@midwest.social
Columbia University has agreed to pay $200m (£147m) to President Donald Trump’s administration over accusations it failed to protect its Jewish students.
The settlement, which will be paid to the federal government over three years, was announced in a statement by the university and confirmed by the president on social media.
In exchange, the government has agreed to return some of the $400m in federal grants it froze or terminated in March.
Columbia was the first school targeted by the administration for its alleged failures to curb antisemitism amid last year’s Israel-Gaza war protests on its New York City campus. It had already agreed to a set of demands from the White House in March.


It is being siphoned straight into the pockets of Trump and his oligarch friends. The federal coffer is a buffet to them.