Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, in a late-night social media post on Friday, was livid over reports that the Trump administration had suspended over half a billion dollars in funding to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for refusing to negotiate on allegations of anti-Semitism on their campus.

Bass, never one to be accused of being quick to the draw (she spent some time in Ghana during the Palisades wildfires despite warnings, and took some time to meander back to the scene of the devastation), was a little behind on her complaint.

She'll be super-upset to learn that the Trump administration is now trying to extract a cool $1 billion settlement from the university.

That's right, the administration is seeking a massive settlement from UCLA, accusing the university of civil rights violations related to antisemitism during pro-Palestinian protests. 

The proposed agreement demands that UCLA pay the settlement in installments, establish a $172 million fund for discrimination victims, and implement significant policy changes, including revisions to policies on protests and race-based scholarships. Additionally, it mandates the elimination of funding for gender-affirming care at UCLA's hospital and medical facilities.

All reasonable proposals, but which will surely be met with frustration and disdain from the woke university officials who have run UCLA into the ground.

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UC President James Milliken warns that the financial demands could devastate the university’s research mission and the broader public university system, saying the massive amount is a non-starter.

"As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country’s greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians,” Milliken said in a statement. 

Perhaps had you been better "stewards" of taxpayer money in the first place, you wouldn't have to be in negotiations for being a cesspool of liberal ideology. Just a thought, James.

As noted, $584 million in federal research funding has already been frozen as leverage. Bass did not like that idea. At all. Calling it a "reckless decision" that "will have devastating consequences for scientific progress."

UCLA's Chancellor Julio Frenk, likewise, had a veritable coronary over the funding being suspended.

“If these funds remain suspended,” he wrote, according to Politico, “it will be devastating for UCLA and for Americans across the nation.”

Frankly, I don't think too many people are going to lose much sleep if UCLA has to pay $1 billion for allowing and promoting bigotry on their campus, then refusing to do anything about it. And they'll be better off, more respected even, if they stop operating under a lens of racial discrimination, anti-Semitism, and advocating for child mutilation.

But that's just me. What say our readers?

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