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According to a letter obtained by Politico, UCLA chancellor Julio Frenk confirmed that $584,000 in funding has been “suspended and at risk” by the Trump administration.
“If these funds remain suspended,” he added, “it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation.
“We are doing everything we can to protect the interests of faculty, students, and staff — and to defend our values and principles… as we actively evaluate our best course of action,” Frenk’s letter continued.
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President of the University of California system, James Milliken, took a different tone and suggested the funding freeze would do nothing to prevent anti-Semitism.
“Our immediate goal is to see the $584 million in suspended and at-risk federal funding restored to the university as soon as possible,” Milliken said in a statement to the outlet. “These cuts do nothing to address antisemitism. Moreover, the extensive work that UCLA and the entire University of California have taken to combat antisemitism has apparently been ignored.”
The funding freeze comes after the Department of Justice announced that an investigation found that the university “violated the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by acting with deliberate indifference in creating a hostile educational environment for Jewish and Israeli students.”
A DOJÂ press release said that UCLA “failed to adequately respond to complaints of severe, pervasive, and objectively offensive harassment and abuse that Jewish and Israeli students faced on its campus from October 7, 2023, to the present.”
“UCLA failed to take timely and appropriate action in response to credible claims of harm and hostility on its campus,” Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K. Dhillon of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division added. “Its inaction constitutes a clear violation of our federal civil rights laws, and the Justice Department will hold UCLA accountable to their legal obligations so that all students can have equal protection under the law.”
As my RedState colleague Bob Hoge reported, the Trump administration has threatened to freeze federal funding from radical universities across the country for everything from allowing rampant anti-Semitism against Jewish students on campus to allowing men to play in women’s sports, and it’s working.
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After the funding was frozen, Columbia caved, as my RedState colleague Ward Clark reported.
In July, the university said in a statement that under the agreement with the Trump administration, “a vast majority of the federal grants which were terminated or paused in March 2025 — will be reinstated and Columbia’s access to billions of dollars in current and future grants will be restored.”
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