As a growing number of the wealthiest US colleges capitulate in their battles with the Trump administration, the strain from lost and frozen federal funding is putting pressure on the remaining holdouts to cut a deal. https://t.co/f5XAx2r68d ...

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting will close shop, it says, after Congress canceled its federal funding and a key committee didn’t include any new funds in a bill https://t.co/mjIk0BUfwi ...

Joining us now, New York Times chief White House correspondent and MSNBC political analyst Peter Baker and MSNBC legal correspondent Lisa Rubin back with us. And uh Lisa, what are some of the key differences here in this agreement versus the agreement we saw with Colombia and with Penn. Well, let's start with the amount obviously is a key difference.$50 million and $200 million on top of a $21 million fine. Colombia also separately agreed to. Those are very big distinctions in the amount of money.But let's ...

Divisions in American politics are often played out on college campuses. Free, >> but actions by the Trump administration against some of America's top universities are unprecedented. >> I think Harvard's a disgrace.>> Trump likes big shiny objects that have lots of prestige and lots of name recognition. So, it's not surprising that he's going after Harvard. As the oldest university in America, the Harvard Corporation predates the founding of the United States.It's sort of considered the pinnacle of of ever ...

Government Spending Cuts - The US President signed a $9 billion package of spending cuts [1] - The package ends federal funding for public broadcasters [1] - The package reduces foreign aid [1]

Columbia University took disciplinary action against dozens of students involved in campus protests as the school negotiates with the Trump administration to restore federal funding https://t.co/j70ertFRvq ...

NBC News legal affairs reporter Gary Grumbach joins me now. Uh so the judge in this case, Judge Burroughs, did she give any indication of how she'll rule. Well, she called the matter mind-boggling during the hearing today, so that gives some indication.But one of her big points that she was making was the Trump administration is calling Harvard anti-Semitic. But what she wanted to know who is it the researchers are the professors. Is it the university president.The the the lawsuit doesn't make that clear. N ...

Republicans are set to succeed in their decades-long quest to end federal funding for public broadcasting after the Senate passed a $9 billion package of cuts derived from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency effort https://t.co/fu8AzRjhwI ...

Let's talk about some of that business. The Senate voting yesterday to advance debate on funding cuts requested by President Trump. They're aimed at clawing back more than a billion dollars previously granted to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting along with nearly $8 billion allocated for international aid efforts.Um, USAD programs like PEPFAR, which now we're hearing uh actually may be reinstated, which is good news. We'll see if that actually happens. But how do you work as a body now to get back som ...

US public broadcasting and a swath of foreign aid programs are on track to lose federal funding after the Senate voted to advance a $9.4 billion package of cuts https://t.co/sBcU6v7L20 ...