Nonilex
#Trump Wants #UCLA to Pay $1 Billion to Restore Its #Research #Funding
The Trump administration has ended about $500 million for the #LosAngeles based #university. Trump said he wanted nearly double that to restart the flow of funds.
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/us/trump-ucla-research-funding-deal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Nonilex
The #Trump proposal calls for the #university to make a $1 billion payment to the #US government & to contribute $172 million to a claims fund that would compensate *victims* [privileged white men] of #CivilRights violations.
If #UCLA accedes to the demand, it would be the largest payout—by far—of any university that has so far reached a deal with Trump. #Columbia agreed to pay $221M in connection with its settlement, & Brown pledged to spend $50M with state work force programs.
Babs E. Blue #IStandW/Ukraine
@Nonilex let’s just face the facts. The Trump administration is trying to destroy California.
Nonilex
The University of California’s president, James B. Milliken, said in a statement on Friday that the university had “just received a document from the Department of Justice & is reviewing it.”
He added, “As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources, & a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students & all Californians.”
huntingdon
"A payment of this scale would completely devastate our country's greatest public university system...."
The president of the University of California, of which UCLA and Berkeley are a part, considers that a bad thing. It is. Most definitely.
For Trump, though, it's a goal, one of the things he most wants to do. That needs to be made much more obvious.
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺
@Nonilex Trump's "presidency" is a protection racket, and he's not even trying to hide the fact anymore.
And yet, we persist. 👀
So, Trump wants California taxpayers to pay his federal government one billion dollars. California taxpayers should agree to do so only if Trump's federal government returns $82 Billion dollars of the $83 Billion dollars in excess taxes Californians pay to the feds but does not receive back. That's a fair deal.
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