Trump seeks $1 billion settlement from UCLA, White House official says

The Trump administration is looking for a $1 billion settlement from the University of California, Los Angeles, a White House official mentioned Friday (August 8, 2025).

The particular person was not authorised to talk publicly concerning the request and spoke on situation of anonymity. The Trump administration has suspended $584 million in federal grants, the college mentioned this week.

In latest weeks, the Department of Justice has accused UCLA of antisemitism.

UCLA is the primary public college whose federal grants have been focused by the administration over allegations of civil rights violations associated to antisemitism and affirmative motion. The Trump administration has frozen or paused federal funding over related allegations in opposition to personal faculties.

The new UC president, James B Milliken, mentioned in an announcement Friday that it had acquired discover from the Department of Justice and is reviewing it.

“Earlier this week, we supplied to have interaction in good religion dialogue with the Department to guard the University and its important analysis mission,” Mr. Milliken mentioned.

“As a public college, we’re stewards of taxpayer assets, and a fee of this scale would utterly devastate our nation’s best public college system in addition to inflict nice hurt on our college students and all Californians.”

UCLA lately reached a $6 million settlement with three Jewish college students and a Jewish professor who sued the college, arguing it violated their civil rights by permitting pro-Palestinian protesters in 2024 to dam their entry to lessons and different areas on campus.

The college has mentioned it’s dedicated to campus security and inclusivity and can proceed to implement suggestions.