UCLA does not seem to be in the room:
From the LA Times: As Gov. Gavin Newsom and the University of California consider whether to sue the Trump administration to restore more than half a billion dollars in federal grants to UCLA, the White House on Tuesday had a terse response. “Bring it on, Gavin,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt when asked about Newsom’s opposition to a Trump plan demanding more than $1 billion and sweeping campus changes at UCLA to resolve federal antisemitism findings against the university...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-08-12/trump-white-house-newsom-ucla-grant-freezes-lawsuit-threat.
Clearly, this matter has now escalated way above the campus level. It is tangled up with the governor's current campaign against such things as President Trump's Texas redistricting scheme, his call for opening the Epstein files, etc.
And, as we have noted before, the PR campaign supporting UCLA is being run out of UCOP:
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