Trump seeks $1-billion fine against UCLA. Newsom says ‘we’ll sue,’ calling it extortion

Hours after Trump administration requested that the University of California to pay a fine of $ 1 billion to solve the charges of federal anti -Semitism in exchange for restoring frozen grant funds to UCLA. Gavin Newsom called the offer “extortion ve and said the state would go to court to protect the country’s leading university system.

“We will sue,” Newsom said at a press conference on the efforts of Texas legislators and California to resist a controversial republican redistribution plan in this state.

“Attacking one of the most important public institutions in the United States in the United States, Tr Trump said,” trying to silence academic freedom, ”he said.

The Federal Government on Friday, the UC’s payment of billion dollars in installments and Jewish students and Civil Rights Law Title VII. The statute includes illegal discrimination about race, color, religion, gender and national origin, including Jewish and Israeli identity.

In addition, the Trump administration requested the protests, assumptions, gender identity in sports and residences, the abolition of scholarships for racial or ethnic groups, and campus changes, which included the campus changes through the agreement.

“Unless he offered his offer, he threatened us for a billion dollars of a fine of billion dollars,” Newsom said.

“In this extraordinary public institution, we will not be a criminal partner in such an attack on academic freedom. We do not resemble some of these institutions,” he said.

The governor referred to Trump administration from Columbia and Brown universities due to accusations similar to those who were facing UCLA, and refers to costly and costly agreements, and criticized the news of Newsom Publicly.

In his statement on Friday, the UC’s term “reviewing”, the UCLA, including 10 campus systems, the UC President James B. Milliken also rejected the request.

“As a state university, we are officials of taxpayer resources and the payment of this scale will completely destroy the biggest state university system of our country and will harm our students and all California,” he said. “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.”

UC Regents President Janet Reilly told Times that the university is still willing to negotiate with the Trump administration, but it is not “unacceptable” conditions.

“The request for a $ 1 billion payment from UCLA is unacceptable when combined with the conditions that contradict the values of the university,” Reilly said.

“The university continues to be willing to establish a constructive and well -intentioned dialogue with the federal government, but the University of California will always be strengthened to protect the integrity and values of our institution,” he said.

The UCLA Chancellor Julio Times Times tested Milliken’s testimony. Federal negotiations are handled at a three diameter level.

The UC is struggling with how to recover the $ 584 million at the Freezed Medicine and Science Grade Fund to UCLA. If the agreement was accepted, it would be the largest settlement between a university and the Trump administration, and it would overcome an agreement of $ 221 million announced last month by Columbia University. As Harvard reported Considering a settlement It contains a heavy fine.

One of the three officials who participated in the negotiations with the Trump administration said, “We will never accept this.” “More money than the frozen in UCLA. So how does that make sense?”

However, another seniority, however, said that the figure was understandable even if the three federal investigations in the system solve all the federal investigations in the system. The federal proposal focuses only on UCLA, not all campuses.

Any payment will be a political responsibility for the university and state leaders in deep blue California, where Trump’s policies are not very popular. One billion dollars will be a financial burden for a university system that is currently facing recruitment ice cream, budget jams, postponed state financing and scattered layoffs.

UC and individual campuses, racial use in acceptance, discrimination against Jews, complaints of civil rights from Jewish students and inappropriate reporting of foreign donations are under many federal investigations.

UCLA faced the most accusations from any three -up or government university government, many of whom were connected to the 2024 pro -Palestinian camp.

The camp, which demanded the disposal of the university from Israel’s war in Gaza in Gaza, was targeted for a violent night attack in the last spring, and then it was the subject of federal lawsuit by pro -Israeli Jewish students. Students, together with a professor, UCLA said that the plaintiffs prevented pro -Israeli Jews from campus roads. UCLA filed a lawsuit for $ 6,45 million, including more than $ 2 million donations to Jewish non -profit organizations.

The Trump administration’s proposal on Friday follows a game book similar to the agreements with Columbia and Brown universities to regain federal financing and solve the allegations of civil rights violations against Jewish and Israeli students.

Trump wants to rebuild the universities he calls “Marxist” liberalism and anti -Israel. During the second period, federal agencies suspended or canceled billions of federal medical and science grants, accused of being anti -Semitic in response to gender, LGBTQ+ problems or campuses. The White House also attacked campus diversity programs and acceptance practices as illegal discrimination against white and Asian Americans.

University leaders challenged the idea that the interruption of medical research helps to protect the Jewish people. UCLA Chancellor Frenk, this week in a campus letter, “This comprehensive punishment that disrupts life -saving research, does not do anything to address any alleged discrimination,” he said.

Trump’s demands in UCLA include the end of scholarships focusing on race or ethnic origin, sharing the acceptance data with the government and campus protest rules. Trump management also proposes that UCLA Health and Medicine Faculty stops gender care for transgender people.

UC has overhauled applications in some areas called by the Trump administration – including the abolition of prohibitions and recruitment statements in protest camps.

The Trump also says he also wants an external monitor to control the agreement.

The proposal arrived a day after the DC told Trump that the UC should not bend on top of his knees ”. Newsom, a democrat, shaped himself as a national anti -Trump figure and is considering a presidential work in 2028.

The university system, directed by the Milliken and Regents Board, which played only last week’s role last week, is independent in accordance with the state constitution. However, the governor may use the political swing on the regards he appoints his members. Newsom also has an old seat on the board.

Kaleem reported from Wilner from Los Angeles and Washington. Times personnel writer Taryn Luna and Seema Mehta in Los Angeles contributed to this report.