Several elite U.S. colleges have made deals with President Donald Trump’s administration, offering concessions to his political agenda and financial payments to restore federal money that had been withheld.

Harvard University has joined the growing list of institutions targeted by the Trump administration for federal funding cuts.

President Donald Trump has announced plans for sweeping tariffs.

The Trump administration has halted several dozen federal research grants at Princeton University.

The Trump administration has opened an investigation into racial bias at Princeton University, saying that the school's recent acknowledgment of racism on campus amounts to a “shocking” and “serious” admission of discrimination. In a letter to the university on Wednesday, the U.S. Education Department said the school's acknowledgment of racism conflicts with previous assurances that Princeton complies with federal anti-discrimination laws. The investigation is the Trump administration's latest salvo against schools and colleges that seek to address racism. The department cited several passages in university President Christopher Eisgruber's letter detailing efforts to combat systematic racism. During a speech at the National Archives on Thursday, Trump decried efforts to teach about systemic racism at schools and universities.

FILE - This Dec. 3, 2015 file photograph shows the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University in Princeton, N.J. Princeton University on Saturday, June 27, 2020, has announced plans to remove the name of former President Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school because of his segregationist views, reversing a decision the Ivy League school made four years ago to retain the name. (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file)PRINCETON, N.J. – Princeton University has announced plans to remove the name of former President Woodrow Wilson from its public policy school because of his segregationist views, reversing a decision the Ivy League school made four years ago to retain the name. He also barred Black students from Princeton while serving as university president and spoke approvingly of the Ku Klux Klan. The superintendent of the Camden school district also announced plans to rename Woodrow Wilson High School, one of the district’s two high schools. The school will now be known as the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, he said.