Trump administration demands $1B from University of California-Los Angeles. Thoughts?

[Cubus]

The Trump administration is pushing the University of California-Los Angeles to pay $1 billion as part of a sweeping settlement agreement that would resolve alleged civil rights violations and force the school to adopt major changes to how it operates, while restoring hundreds of millions of dollars in frozen federal research grants.

The huge settlement demand comes as UCLA is at risk of losing more than half a billion dollars in research funds that the Trump administration has withheld as leverage in its pressure campaign to force the school to address allegations of antisemitism on campus. After targeting other elite universities with similar claims, the administration turned its focus on UCLA, alleging it failed to protect Jewish students and faculty from discrimination by pro-Palestinian protesters during tumultuous, sometimes violent demonstrations against Israel’s war against Hamas that consumed the campus last year.

Under the terms of the administration’s proposal, UCLA would pay the billion dollars in equal installments over three years and put another $172 million into a fund to pay legal claims made against it.

“As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians,” said James Milliken, who recently took over as president of the University of California system, in a statement that acknowledged the university had received the $1 billion settlement proposal from the Justice Department on Friday.

Source: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/08/trump-administration-demands-1-billion-from-university-of-california-los-angeles-00500213

[Dongie]

What research is this? Further exploitation of American children indoctrinated into the liberal democrate cult is what's been going on. Funded by taxpayers. Conservative tax dollars funding the downfall of America. That's real sweet! I hope they have to close their doors and all those bloody so-called professors have to seek employment elsewhere.

[Dongie]

That would be democrat !

[Lliam]

Calling protests against Israeli atrocities antisemitic is absolute bullshit. It's like calling lynching of black people by the KKK anti-Christian.
This is like making it illegal to protest against Nazi death camps. Except Israel is even more sadistic.

Too bad if the supporters of sadistic, genocidal butchers get their feelings hurt.

But this just goes to show that Trump and the entire U. S. government are owned by anti-American Zionists.

[dustybiker2]

Trump is going to be disappointed, again.

He's a loser. And always will be.

[OlderAndWiser]

The school should have done the right thing when all of this was happening, and then this wouldn't be an issue. I feel no sympathy for UCLA.

[Darklydarkened]

Trump's voters constantly bicker about government waste, less regulation all over, but are cheering when Trump uses government power to fuck with institutions that are at odds with him

And the cause of it is pathetic for a group of people who pretend to be nationalists. Why are your president campaining to defend a genocide?

[OlderAndWiser]

@Darklydarkened. Poster child for TDS.

[Dongie]

Darko, read my comment up at the top and you will see an angle of our president you did not know was there it seems. He doesn't like how liberals use our schools to brainwash OUR children!

[Darklydarkened]

@Dongie School is for indoctrination you knit. You're pretending republicans don't brainwash kids

[exitseven]

Harvard settles for half of that. UCLA should have got that deal when they had the chance.

[Dargil]

UCLA should have known better.

[msc545]

Ucla needs to tell Trump to go to hell.