The American Federation of Teachers is taking on the Trump administration.

They’re upset over its threat to withhold $400 million from Columbia University.

The union argues this tactic infringes on academic freedom and autonomy.

In other words, they want government money and their entitlement is showing.

Columbia has already agreed to policy changes, including banning masks during protests in hopes to keep the millions flowing.

A coalition including the NAACP and the National Education Association, the largest teachers union, sued the Trump administration Monday over its “illegal attempts to dismantle” the Education Department. https://t.co/DlYUi0pFbG

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The Massachusetts teachers union is suing the Trump administration over the dismantling of the Department of Education, but school districts around the state are failing. In Somerset, student performance is a disaster. Drop your district and I’ll post your school data. pic.twitter.com/djTX4l9DqM

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Fox News reports:

President Donald Trump’s administration is facing a new lawsuit that argues that the administration’s threat to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding from Columbia University is illegal.

The American Federation of Teachers filed the lawsuit alongside the American Association of University Professors on Tuesday, arguing that the Trump administration is seeking to “consolidate power over higher education.”

“This action challenges the Trump administration’s unlawful and unprecedented effort to overpower a university’s academic autonomy and control the thought, association, scholarship, and expression of its faculty and students,” the lawsuit reads.

“The Trump administration is coercing Columbia University to do its bidding and regulate speech and expression on campus by holding hostage billions of dollars in congressionally authorized federal funding—funding that is responsible for positioning the American university system as a global leader in scientific, medical, and technological research and is crucial to ensuring it remains so,” it continues.

The lawsuit comes after Columbia’s administrators agreed to enact sweeping changes to its policies regarding student protests.

The Trump administration threatened to withhold some $400 million if changes were not made.

Teachers union sues Trump administration over $400M cuts to Columbia University https://t.co/pEMqFZyQdd

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 25, 2025

NAACP is mega mad!

Too bad.

The gravy train is over.

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