Newsom accuses universities of promoting their souls over Trump settlements

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., accused main universities such as Columbia and Brown of "promoting their souls" to the Trump administration after agreeing to multimillion-dollar settlements.

A number of universities had federal analysis grants minimize or frozen both for failing to handle antisemitism or for selling so-called "woke" insurance policies, in line with the administration. Although some faculties have agreed to pay large settlements to revive funding and shut extra investigations, Newsom reiterated that the College of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is not going to observe go well with.

"UCLA just isn't going to promote their soul like Harvard or Brown or Penn or Columbia," Newsom mentioned on "Pod Save America" Thursday. "Disgrace on all of them. We're not. And we will battle like hell to guard our democracy, our liberties, our freedoms. I really like Republicans. I really like Democrats. I do not care what your get together affiliation is. I truthfully do not. I care about this nation and our democracy. I care in regards to the rule of legislation."

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<source media="(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1023px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/08/672/378/gavin-newsom-redisricting-event-la-august-14-2025.jpg.png?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/08/1344/756/gavin-newsom-redisricting-event-la-august-14-2025.jpg.png?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="378" width="672"><source media="(min-width: 1024px) and (max-width: 1279px)" srcset="https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/08/931/523/gavin-newsom-redisricting-event-la-august-14-2025.jpg.png?ve=1&tl=1, https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2025/08/1862/1046/gavin-newsom-redisricting-event-la-august-14-2025.jpg.png?ve=1&tl=1 2x" height="523" width="931"> Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California has vowed the College of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) wouldn't settle with the Trump administration. (AP Picture/Marcio Jose Sanchez)

He known as out Harvard over studies suggesting the college was near reaching a $500 million settlement to regain entry to greater than $2.6 billion in federal funding.

"And let me make this crystal clear to everybody watching and make it crystal clear to the oldsters at Harvard," Newsom mentioned. "We'll by no means ever promote our soul to Donald Trump. Harvard, I pray you might be listening. How may you? Of all establishments, on tens of billions of {dollars}, what’s the purpose of your rattling endowment in case you can not stand on precept?"

Whereas talking in San Francisco earlier this month, Newsom made an identical declaration, insisting that UCLA wouldn't pay a settlement beneath his watch.

"We’re not Brown, we’re not Columbia, and I’m not going to be governor if we act like that," Newsom mentioned. "Interval. Full cease, I'll battle like hell to make it possible for doesn’t occur."

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The Trump administration is demanding UCLA pay a $1 billion settlement. (Reuters)

The Trump administration is looking for a $1 billion settlement from UCLA , together with the creation of a $172 million claims fund for alleged Title VII violations beneath the Civil Rights Act.

UCLA has already paid $6 million to settle a lawsuit introduced by Jewish college students and school members over the varsity's dealing with of anti-Israel protests, together with its failure to cease protesters from establishing what Jewish college students and school described as a "Jew Exclusion Zone" on campus.

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