Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding | US news
The White House official said on Friday that the Trump administration was looking for a $ 1 billion settlement from Los Angeles University of California.
The person was not authorized to talk about the demand and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Trump administration suspended the federal research financing of $ 584 million from the university’s chancellor, Julio Franks, National Science Foundation, National Health Institutes, Ministry of Energy and other agencies. A message to UCLA staff and students This week.
Last week, the Ministry of Justice reported A response to the protest camp on the campus of UCLA on the campus of UCLA in the spring of 2024, violating the Federal Federal Discrimination Law was deliberately indifferent to a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students.
US Chief Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi, “against students will not stop violating these disgusting civil rights: Doj, UCLA to risk Jewish Americans and to continue our investigations on other campuses in the UC system will force a heavy price to pay a heavy price,” he said. A statement.
UCLA is the first state university aimed at the allegations of violations of civil rights related to anti -Semitism and positive action. The Trump administration froze or paused federal financing on similar allegations against private colleges.
James B Milliken, President of the University of California, who controls a university system consisting of 10 campuses, six academic health centers and three affiliated national laboratories, confirmed that the university received and examined the Ministry of Justice on Friday.
Milliken, “At the beginning of this week, we offered to establish a well -intentioned dialogue with the department to protect the university and critical research mission,” Milliken said. “As a state university, we are officials of the sources of taxpayers and the payment of this scale will completely destruct the largest state university system of our country and will cause great harm to our students and all California.
“Americans in this great nation rely on the vital work of UCLA and the UC system for technologies and medical treatments that save life, grow the US economy and protect our national security,” he added.
UCLA reached recently A 6 million dollar settlement He argued that in 2024, with three Jewish students and a Jewish professor who sued the university, and the pro -Palestinian protesters violated their civil rights by allowing them to prevent their access to campus classes and other fields.
The university said that it depends on campus safety and inclusiveness and will continue to apply proposals.
