With President Donald Trump and his administration cutting federal funding from major universities for promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives and allowing antisemitism, some Americans – especially students – may be concerned with how this affects their education. 

Despite their concerns, the situation is not as dire as it appears. Impacted universities have not exactly been clear or completely honest about the grants they lost. 

The Trump administration at first paused $400 million in federal funding from Columbia University last month. This was followed in April by the administration pausing over $1 billion to Cornell University, $790 million to Northwestern University and $510 million to Brown University. 

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has data publicly available on many of the grants that were eliminated. These terminated grants expose just how wasteful the universities were with taxpayer dollars. 

Columbia University, for example, wasted nearly $47,000 on “personal healthcare networks of transgender and gender-diverse adults after gender-affirming surgery,” over $1 million for the university’s new........

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