More than a dozen schools, including Harvard, MIT, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, have frozen hiring.

Beyond the administration’s budget cuts, Trump has been threatening colleges that don’t adhere to his anti-woke political agenda. The Trump administration’s gutting of the U.S. Department of Education in the name of government efficiency is wreaking havoc on universities across America.

The lawsuit alleges the layoffs are so severe the department “can no longer function, and cannot comply with its statutory requirements.”