The University of California system will negotiate to restore the more than $300 million in federal research funding the Trump administration suspended last week, the latest step in a closely watched back-and-forth after the White House accused the University of California, Los Angeles of failing to crack down on campus antisemitism.
UC president James Milliken said in a statement on Wednesday that leaders would work to protect access to $584 million in suspended and threatened funds, calling the loss of these federal dollars the “death knell for innovative work that saves lives, grows our economy, and fortifies our national security,” while arguing the Trump administration’s cuts “do nothing to address antisemitism.”
