Judge orders Trump to restore $500 million in grant funding to UCLA : NPR
Students pass Royce Hall on the UCLA campus in Los Angeles on August 15, 2024.
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LOS Angeles – A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore $ 500 million in federal subsidy funding that he represented at the University of California in Los Angeles.
The American district judge Rita Lin in San Francisco granted a preliminary injunction on Monday, saying that the government had probably violated the law on administrative procedure, which requires specific procedures and explanations for federal funding reductions. Instead, the government informed the UCLA of the generalized form of letters that several subsidies from various agencies were suspended but offered no specific details.
In August, the UCLA announced that the Trump administration had suspended $ 584 million in federal subsidies concerning allegations of civil rights violations linked to anti -Semitism and positive action.
Lin made a decision later this month, which led to $ 81 million in the National Science Foundation subsidies at the UCLA. She decided that these cuts had violated a preliminary injunction in June where she ordered the National Science Foundation to restore dozens of subsidies that she had dismissed at the University of California, which operates 10 campuses across the State.
The White House did not immediately respond to an email from the Associated Press requesting comments from the decision on Monday.
The Trump administration used its control of federal funding to put pressure on reforms in elite colleges that the president describes as exceeding by liberalism and anti -Semitism. The administration has also launched surveys on the efforts of diversity, equity and inclusion, claiming that they discriminate American white and Asian students.
Two Ivy League institutions, Columbia and Brown, concluded agreements to preserve the funding that was chosen by the Trump administration for similar claims that they had not done enough to respond to the anti -Semitism of the campus.
In the case of Harvard, who postponed with a prosecution of the reductions in its financing, a federal judge in early September judged that the freeze of funding was equivalent to illegal reprisals for Harvard rejection of the Trump administration.
The Trump administration had proposed to settle its UCLA survey by a billion dollars of the institution. California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom described him as an attempted extortion.
The UCLA said that such a large payment “would devastate” the institution.
Monday’s decision concerns hundreds of medical research subsidies from the National Institutes of Health which include studies on the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, cancer recovery, cellular regeneration in nerves and other fields which, according to campuses, are essential to improve the health of Americans.
