Nadler blasts Columbia for 'outrageous and embarrassing' settlement with Trump administration

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday condemned Columbia University’s settlement with the Trump administration as “outrageous and embarrassing” and accused the school of giving in to the government’s pressure campaign against higher education.

“I am deeply disappointed by reports of Columbia University’s outrageous and embarrassing $200 million capitulation to the Trump Administration’s repugnant extortion campaign,” Nadler, a Columbia alumnus whose district borders the school, said in a statement on the social platform X.