http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/f90fa120e4514f44 https://verfassungsblog.de/trump-universities-defunding/ Bullying Universities - How Trump is Destroying American Higher Education Scheppele, Kim Lane eng 2025-07-28 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Fiscal policy Trump Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker USA USA Universities Trump Donald | 1946- | Geschäftsmann Unternehmer Politiker USA Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 David Pozen at Columbia University calls Columbia University’s new agreement with the federal government “regulation by deal”. Of course, Columbia should have learned by now that making a deal does not mean that the pressure stops. Appeasing a bully only empowers the bully – and he will be back for more. Regulation by deal, precisely because it bypasses general lawmaking procedures, leaves open the possibility that any deal can be supplemented with even more demands in the future. It can provide no legal guarantees of security.