Trump -Administration paused $ 175 million in federal funding to University of Pennsylvania Over his recording of transient athletes in women’s sports, Fox Business reported exclusively on Wednesday morning.
Ivy League University is now standing to risk losing all its federal funding in the midst of a study of Potential violations of title IX.
Riley Gaines, now a spokeswoman for Independent Women’s Forum, famously bound Lia Thomas, to the left, to the fifth place in the 200 Freestyle final at the NCAA swimming and diving championship. (Brett Davis-usa Today Sports)
A senior official told Fox Business that the administration has paused $ 175 million in federal funding. This did not take into account UPENN’s overall federal funding, which the university previously reported last year was about $ 1 billion.
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The break is not a direct result of the investigation of Upenn, which the Institute of Education announced a day after the president signed “Keeping Men Out of Women’s Sports” executive order on February 5th.
Acting Assistant Secretary of Civil Rights Craig Trainor said in a statement from the department last month that three institutions would be examined for suspected violation of title IX.
In addition to Upenn, San Jose State University, Which made headlines in the fall after several schools refused to play women’s volleyball team due to a trans athlete on the guard schedule, and Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association is also being investigated for suspected violations.
Blaire Fleming, No. 3 by San Jose State Spartans, looks at under the third set against Air Force Falcons at Falcon Court at East Gym on October 19, 2024 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. (Andrew WeVers/Getty Images)
GOP -legislator urges Trump to draw financing to school accused of causing girls to change in front of trans students
Upenn first made headlines during the 2022 season when Lia Thomas, a transient student athlete, was put on the women’s team and would eventually continue to win a national championship title in the women’s 500-yard freestyle.
Thomas would also tie with earlier Kentucky Swims Riley Gaines For the fifth place of 200-yard freestyle that year, though it would be Thomas who received the trophy exclusively during the awards ceremony.
Thomas’ participation triggered a national debate about girls and women’s sports that have seen several states in violation of federal law during the Trump administration.
Texas swimmers Erica Sullivan and Evie Pfeifer embrace as 500 freestyle winner Lia Thomas passes under the NCAA swimming and diving championship on March 17, 2022 at the McAuley Aquatic Center in Atlanta. (Photo by Rich von Biberstein/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
Last week, the US Department of Agriculture paused funding To the University of Maine System, a network of eight public college in the state, but days later, US Senator Susan Collins’ office said the financing freezing had been reversed.
In addition, this week, Rep. Mary Miller, R-Aill., called on the Trump administration to draw federal funding from a school district in Illinois after a mother accused her 13-year-old daughter’s school of forcing girls to change in front of another trans student in the girl’s dressing room.
Upenn has sent several statements online when the university supported for cuts in federal funding. Pakinomist Digital reached the university on Wednesday after the latest reports on financing cuts.
