WASHINGTON — The Trump administration pulled back roughly $400 million in grants and contracts from Columbia University on Friday, citing the Ivy League school’s noncompliance with anti-discrimination laws.

A federal antisemitism task force — convened by President Trump and including the Departments of Justice, Health and Human Services (HHS), and Education as well as the General Services Administration (GSA) — announced that roughly 8% of the university’s US-taxpayer funding was being pulled.

“Since October 7, Jewish students have faced relentless violence, intimidation, and anti-Semitic harassment on their campuses — only to be ignored by those who are supposed to protect them,” Secretary of Education Linda McMahon said in a statement.

“Universities must comply with all federal antidiscrimination laws if they are going to receive federal funding. For too long, Columbia has abandoned that obligation to Jewish students studying on its campus. Today, we demonstrate to Columbia and other universities that we will not tolerate their appalling inaction any longer.”

More funding cancellations are likely to follow, the Joint Task Force to Combat Antisemitism also said in their announcement.

“Columbia has an antisemitism crisis, and for months, I have worked with faculty, staff, students, parents, and alumni to urge the administration to act quickly to address this crisis and avoid lasting damage to the University,” said Brian Cohen, executive Director of Columbia and Barnard’s Hillel chapter.

“I hope this federal action is a wake-up call to Columbia’s administration and trustees to take antisemitism and the harassment of Jewish students and faculty seriously so that these grants can be restored, the vital work of the University can continue, and that Columbia can become, once again, a place where the Jewish community thrives.”

Eden Yadegar, a Jewish senior at Columbia, called the funding freeze “a much needed wake-up call for Columbia administration and trustees, finally to take the antisemitism crisis seriously.”

“It’s a shame because Columbia has had countless opportunities to step up and make the changes necessary to save the university,” Yadegar, 21, said.

“They need to institute a mask ban; they need to follow through on their disciplinary processes,” she went on. “They need [to] reinstate and actually enforce restrictions on protests — obviously restrictions that are in line with our First Amendment, but nonetheless restrictions that are really safeguards for true free speech.”

Jewish student Maya Cuikerman said she committed two years ago to studying at Columbia — but became worried she made the wrong decision after watching the anti-Israel protests unfold on its campus.

“I think the fact that there’s action being taken is a good thing because nothing else has seemed to work thus far in pushing the administration into making effective changes on campus,” the 19-year-old freshman said.

Cuikerman, who is the Campus Hatred Fellow at Columbia, also said it’s been rumored “one of the worst off with these cuts” will be the campus medical center, which provides “life-saving clinical trials.”

“It’s a shame,” she added, that “terrorist supporters and antisemites on campus are ruining these kinds of things.”

Yadegar said “the goal is not for critical research to be disrupted” but “to urge Columbia to take the necessary steps and make the necessary fundamental reforms in order to save our university and restore it to a place of real academic inquiry and a place where students can go to class free from harassment and a place where really like learning happen.”

The joint task force didn’t immediately disclose which grants and contracts were withdrawn.

The GSA has been deputized to issue “stop-work orders” on the hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants to Columbia by the DOJ, HHS and Education Department.

Federal officials signaled earlier this week that at least $51.4 million worth of contracts were ready to be put on the chopping block.

In total, the feds have more than $5 billion in grant commitments with the Ivy League university that are currently under review.

An audit began Monday and combed through Columbia’s finances following a series of antisemitic incidents on campus and an ongoing federal civil rights probe.

“We are reviewing the announcement from the federal agencies and pledge to work with the federal government to restore Columbia’s federal funding,” a university spokesperson told The Post in a statement.

“We take Columbia’s legal obligations seriously and understand how serious this announcement is and are committed to combatting antisemitism and ensuring the safety and wellbeing of our students, faculty, and staff.”

The antisemitism task force noted that the university has “not responded” to their requests for information needed for a so-called Title VI investigation, referring to the section of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in federally funded programs.

“Anti-Semitism is clearly inconsistent with the fundamental values that should inform liberal education,” said Sean Keveney, HHS Acting General Counsel and a task force member. 

“Columbia University’s complacency is unacceptable.”

McMahon, 76, pointed out on “Fox and Friends” Friday morning that the Columbia probe by the Education Department’s Office of Civil Rights was one of “five investigations now into different universities to make sure that they are not allowing antisemitism.”

The other schools under scrutiny are Northwestern University, Portland State University, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Minnesota.

“To allow this kind of unrest, this is not about freedom of speech,” the education secretary said of the universities’ conduct. “They have to quell these uprisings and not allow faculty to be attacked or other students to be attacked.”

The funding cancellation comes after more than a year of incidents of antisemitic harassment and intimidation on the Morningside Heights campus following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel.

Demonstrators descended on Columbia and set up a tent city toward the end of the spring semester in 2024 — and later occupied the historic Hamilton Hall building — before being driven out by the NYPD.

No students who participated were expelled and just four were suspended in the aftermath, according to the findings of a scathing House Republican report issued in December.

“Columbia said the 22 students arrested for the criminal takeover of Hamilton Hall would face expulsion. Instead, the University lifted the students’ interim suspensions after pushback from radical faculty, allowing 7 to graduate, restoring 11 to good standing, and leaving 3 with preexisting sanctions suspended and 1 on probation,” according to the report, whose contents were first revealed by The Post.

Hamas even publicly endorsed the undergrads’ demonstrations.

“We in the Hamas movement believe that any popular movement demanding an end to the aggression and genocide against our people are useful and supportive activities for our cause,” a terror group spokesman Bassem Naim told Newsweek as the protests reached a fever pitch in April.

Jewish students also filed lawsuits against the university over the “rampant antisemitism” on campus during the 2023-24 school year — with one undergrad settling for $395,000 with the school after being disciplined for jokingly deploying “novelty fart sprays” against anti-Israel protesters.

Columbia University president Minouche Shafik resigned from her post this past August after having testified to Congress that pro-jihadist slogans protesters proclaimed on campus were “hurtful” but didn’t rise to the level of antisemitism.

New York Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik, whose work on the House Education Committee investigating Columbia contributed to Shafik’s resignation, told The Post that the move against Columbia will make sure “hardworking taxpayer dollars do not fund these cesspools of antisemitism.”

“President Trump is delivering on his promise to hold universities like Columbia accountable by defunding them for failing to protect their Jewish community,” added Stefanik, whose nomination as US ambassador to the United Nations is pending before the Senate.

Last month, two Barnard College students were finally expelled a month after participating in a masked anti-Israel protest that invaded a classroom studying Israeli history and distributed sick “Hamas Media Office” flyers glorifying terrorism.

“The era of the federal government enabling Jew-hatred is over,” declared the watchdog group StopAntisemitism. “We applaud the Trump Administration for heeding our calls to defund Columbia University and urge this to be just the first of many decisive actions.”

Reps for New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams did not immediately respond to a request for comment.