Trump says federal funding will stop for colleges, schools allowing 'illegal' protests

Demonstrators take part in an "Emergency Rally: Stand with Palestinians Under Siege in Gaza," amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, US on 14 October 2023. Photo: REUTERS/Brian Snyder

"American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested,"

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Publisted at 8:15 PM, Tue Mar 4th, 2025

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that all federal funding will stop for colleges and schools that allow "illegal" protests and that agitators will be imprisoned or sent back to the country they came from.

"American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested," Trump said in a Truth Social post.

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