Correction: An earlier version of this article misstated Columbia University's lobbying expenditures after contracted lobbying firms misfiled its expenses.

The nation’s top schools have ramped up their spending on lobbying the federal government this year amid President Trump’s crackdown on higher education, disclosures filed last week show.

Twenty-four top universities and one of the nation’s largest college systems have already spent around $24 million lobbying Washington this year, more than double what they spent during the same time period last year, according to federal disclosures.

“Universities have been upping their lobbying game to try to be influential, either try to directly influence the White House or, probably in a lot of cases, trying to lobby members of Congress with pe

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