The top of the federal job pressure to fight antisemitism dismissed “rumors” Thursday that Columbia College was nearing a deal to revive $400 million in federal funds frozen by the Trump administration, arguing that the Ivy League college was “not even close” to assembly President Trump’s calls for.
“There was a rumor out there that there was a settlement approaching to restore Columbia’s $400 billion that we froze. Let me be very clear to your listeners and to the nation and to the Jewish American community. That’s not true,” job pressure chief Leo Terrell informed John Catsimatidis and Rita Cosby throughout an look on “Cats & Cosby.”
Native outlet WABC-TV and the Wall Avenue Journal have each reported that Columbia College was nearing a deal to satisfy 9 preconditions set forth by the Trump administration that might permit it to think about restoring funding amounting to roughly 8% of the establishment’s US-taxpayer funding.
The administration calls for for “formal negotiations” relating to the elite college’s “continued financial relationship with the United States government” to maneuver ahead embody the college punishing these liable for the violent takeover of Hamilton Corridor in April 2024, shifting the disciplinary course of to the workplace of the president, implementing an on-campus masks ban, formalizing an antisemitism definition and putting the college’s Center East, South Asian and African Research departments underneath “academic receivership” for at the least 5 years, which might give somebody outdoors of the departments the facility to make selections for the school.
“President Trump and [Attorney General] Pam Bondi have made it a commitment that this task force – we’re going to eradicate antisemitism at all of these schools, and I will submit to you, Rita, that’s not happening at this point at Columbia University,” Terrell stated.
“I will tell you right now that Columbia has not, in my opinion, and the opinion of the Department of Justice, has not cleaned up their act regarding anti-Semitism,” he added. “I’m also telling you that there is no agreement – they’re not even close, not even close to having those funds unfrozen.”
“Jewish American students don’t feel comfortable going to that school,” Terrell stated of Columbia.
Columbia College confronted a Thursday deadline to conform to the preconditions, however the Trump administration has prolonged the deadline till the tip of Friday, in accordance with the Wall Avenue Journal.
The college declined to touch upon Terrell’s remarks or the standing of negotiations.
The antisemitism job pressure head additional revealed that he’ll quickly be occurring a tour of 10 universities to warn them “If you want federal funding, if you want to make sure that you are going to avoid lawsuits under Title VI, Title VII, if you want to make sure your tax status is correct, you have to allow Jewish American students to go to school without being harassed or tormented.”
“Not one of those universities on my list has met that standard,” Terrell stated.
