A group of Democrats who attended Harvard are threatening to investigate the university should it cut a deal with President Donald Trump to restore federal funding, reports Axios.

The Ivy League school is reportedly considering paying the Trump administration $500 million to end its dispute with the White House, which would be seen as “part of a broader pattern of attempted interference … in the governance of independent institutions,” a group of House and Senate Democrats, led by Rep. Sam Liccardo, D-Calif., wrote in a letter.

Trump and his team have undertaken a broad campaign to leverage federal funding to force change at U.S. universities, which the Republican president says are gripped by antisemitic and “radical left” ideologies.

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