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Home Front: Politix
Trump cancels half a billion dollars in federal funding for UCLA
2025-08-08
[BLAZE] The administration accused the university of not doing enough to prevent discrimination.

The Trump administration canceled more than half a billion dollars' worth of federal funding for the University of California in Los Angeles over claims that they did not do enough to shut down anti-Semitism on campus.

The college said they were in negotiations to preserve the $584 million dollars in federal research funds frozen by the administration, according to a letter shared with Politico.

"If these funds remain suspended," UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk wrote in the letter Wednesday, "it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation."
They are certainly welcome to do any research they like without federal dollars, so long as they continue to defy federal civil rights laws. This is the same mistake Harvard insists upon. Though to be fair, it is still illegal to break civil rights laws even if they don’t get federal funding, for which there are traditionally severe penalties. So the question is whether these obnoxious schools will be clever enough to br only punished once for it, or if they will demand to be punished twice.
University of California President James Milliken told Politico that the school had agreed "to engage in dialogue with the federal administration" and said its goal was to restore the millions in funding as quickly as possible.
Related:
UCLA: 2025-08-01 Harvard considering settlement with Trump administration, according to NYT; but they’re too late - DOJ taking over civil rights discrimination case
UCLA: 2025-05-23 DHS ends Harvard's student visa program over 'pro-terrorist conduct'
UCLA: 2025-05-21 The Ongoing Failure Of Affirmative Action
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