The Pentagon will forbid members of the military from attending Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities starting next school year amid a campaign to cut ties with institutions that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called “factories of anti-American resentment.

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Scouting America will make changes to several policies after Secretary of War Pete Hegseth threatened to pull the department's support for the organization.

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Hegseth accused Columbia, Yale, Brown and other universities of being "breeding grounds of toxic indoctrination.”

Feb 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Defense Department will stop sending officers on professional courses and graduate programs at Ivy League colleges, Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth said on Friday, declaring the schools had become "anti-American".

Some of the changes mirror Scouting America's suggestions to the Department of Justice, including discontinuing its Citizenship in Society merit badge.

After threatening to sever ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts, Defense Secretary Hegseth announced a 6-month reprieve

Scouting America said in a statement: "Over several months, we engaged in dialogue with Department leadership to align on how we could deepen our service to military families, while making programmatic updates to comply with Executive Order 14173.

In a Tuesday meeting at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei until 5:01 p.m. Friday to agree to the military’s right to use the technology in all lawful cases.