Northwestern University has ramped up its lobbying efforts in the face of anti-Semitism investigations from the Trump administration and Congress, with expenditures ballooning last quarter to a whopping $757,000—almost as much as Columbia and Harvard universities combined. That amount—combining in-house and outside spending —marks a more than five-fold increase compared to the same period in 2024, lobbying disclosures reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon show. In fact, that spending level