The Trump administration has suspended approximately $175 million in federal funding for the University of Pennsylvania over a transgender swimmer who last competed for the school in 2022, said the White House.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Feb.5 that was intended to ban transgender athletes from competing in girls and women’s sports. The next day, the Education Department announced an investigation into Penn’s swimming program.
But the Ivy League school’s federal money was suspended in a separate review of discretionary federal money going to universities, the White House said. The money that was paused came from the Defense Department and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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