Trump administration demands $1bn from UCLA to restore federal funding
The Trump administration is seeking a $1bn settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official said on Friday.
The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the request and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Trump administration has suspended $584m in federal research funding from the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Department of Energy and other agencies, the university’s chancellor, Julio Frenk, said in
a message to UCLA staff and students this week.
Last week, the justice department
notified the university that an investigation by the department’s civil right division had “concluded that ...
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