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Breaking: Trump administration sends Cornell stop work orders amid reports of $1 billion funding freeze
ITHACA, N.Y. — The Trump administration intends to freeze $1 billion in federal funding to Cornell University, according to two unnamed officials in a report from The New York Times Tuesday evening. Cornell University leaders responded to the report Tuesday night, saying they have “not received information that would confirm this figure.” But the school’s leaders said that earlier Tuesday, they were sent “more than 75 stop work orders from the Department of Defense related to research that is profoundly significant to American national defense, cybersecurity, and health.” …