Why does PRIVATE COLLEGE Columbia get $400 million of taxpayer money???

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Lots of so-called private colleges get handouts from the taxpayers and this needs to stop. Giving money to state colleges is of course, ok.

march 22 2025 Columbia University agreed Friday to demands by the Trump administration—including restrictions on masks, new campus police officers and more oversight for some departments—after losing $400 million in federal funding over allegations of antisemitism at pro-Palestinian protests, part of a contentious back-and-forth between President Donald Trump and U.S. universities.
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Katrina Armstrong, Columbia’s interim president, said Friday the university had informed the federal government about changes to its protest and security policies—several of which lined up with demands by the Department of Education and other agencies, which cancelled $400 million worth of contracts and grants to Columbia earlier this month.
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Lots of so-called private colleges get handouts from the taxpayers and this needs to stop. Giving money to state colleges is of course, ok.



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trump has held a decades-long grudge against Columbia and now he's getting his revenge.

"By 2000, Mr. Trump had set his sights on a new partner: Columbia, which he had heard was looking for space. A development there would have been a departure for the university. It was more than two miles from Columbia’s campus and relatively small, requiring it to be built up, with towering buildings. Still, the idea captured the attention of several trustees and some top administrators. For more than a year, they discussed what could become of the land, mostly with officials at the Trump Organization and sometimes with Mr. Trump himself. Mr. Trump even coined a name for the potential development: “Columbia Prime.”

But in negotiations, he frequently changed his demands, even as reports would appear in Mr. Trump’s favored tabloid, The New York Post, claiming that Columbia was close to buying it. In private, he tossed around numerous prices, topping out at $400 million, according to a Columbia official from that era, a figure that an anonymous source leaked to The Post a few times. No matter the amount, Mr. Trump said to Columbia officials, the university would be getting such a great deal that it should also rename its business school the Donald J. Trump School of Business...

A few trustees and administrators arrived with a report prepared on their behalf by a real estate team at Goldman Sachs, which attended every meeting between Columbia officials and representatives of the Trump Organization. It outlined what the investment bank considered a fair value for the land. Mr. Trump showed up late, was informed of the university’s property analysis and became incensed.

... A furious Mr. Trump walked out less than five minutes after the meeting had started."

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Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number.

Donald Trump was demanding $400 million from Columbia University. When he did not get his way, he stormed out of
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