The Trump administration says it’s investigating these Colorado institutions. Here’s what’s really happening.

Colorado has been targeted by the Trump administration “through a coordinated campaign of federal investigations, funding cuts and other punitive actions,” said Chioma Chukwu, executive director of the nonpartisan watchdog American Oversight. “The point isn’t to uncover wrongdoing or reach well-supported conclusions,” she said. “It’s to generate damaging headlines, threaten federal funding and pressure public institutions to abandon lawful policies and conform to the administration’s ideological agenda. The administration doesn’t care whether the public believes it has the evidence or capacity to pursue every investigation. By the time those questions are asked, the damage has been done."