US President Donald Trump is pressing Harvard University to agree to a larger settlement than Columbia University's recent $221 million deal, in exchange for restoring over $2 billion in frozen federal funds.

Columbia win has paved the way for Trump team to elecit hundreds of millions from other top schools, including Cornell, Brown, Duke and Northwestern

On July 23, Columbia University entered into a resolution agreement with the federal government to settle claims that it didn’t do enough to prevent harassment of Jewish students.

We’ve had continuing negotiations and conversations with Harvard, even though there is a pending lawsuit that I think is going to, will play out, but we’re hoping that Harvard will come to the

Columbia will pay: $221 million in legal settlements. Columbia will get: $400 million in federal funds reinstated. Accusation: Violating administration policy on transgender athletes. Penn could have lost: $175 million in federal funds had been suspended.

Columbia University struck a deal with the Trump administration to unfreeze hundreds of millions of dollars in research funding that was illegally blocked.