More than $5 billion worth of taxpayer dollars were given to Ivy League schools through sponsorship, grants and contracts during fiscal year 2023 alone. Another $2.1 billion also made its way to other prominent schools that have had anti-Israel rallies of late.
The Ivy League schools – Harvard University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Brown University, Dartmouth College, and Cornell University – have been the scenes of some of the most high-profile anti-Israel unrest.
The tumult has led several Republican lawmakers in the Senate and the House to call for the removal of federal funding for schools that refuse to meaningfully address the situations transpiring on their respective campuses.
Some of these schools have impressive endowments. Some of the top ones:
Harvard: $50,877,680,000
Yale: $41,383,260,000
Stanford: $36,338,794,000
Princeton: $35,126,200,000
MIT: $24,600,809,000
Note that these top five endowments are in billions of dollars.
In other words, these schools are sitting on huge piles of cash yet are still receiving billions in taxpayer funding. That's not to mention grants and government-guaranteed loans given to students, and bear in mind that the Biden administration has been leaping through flaming hoops trying to find ways to abrogate centuries of contract law and "forgive" those student loans.
https://redstate.com/wardclark/2024/04/29/waste-7-billion-in-taxpayer-funds-to-ivy-league-universities-with-anti-isreal-protests-n2173486