Confidence vs. Confidence

From the Sacramento Bee: Gov. Gavin Newsom said [last] Friday he was “confident” that California universities would reject federal attempts to condition educational funds, a day after the governor said he would block state funds to any California school that agreed to a White House compact in exchange for preferential funding treatment. ...USC told its on-campus newspaper it was “reviewing” the compact, which the federal administration also sent to MIT, the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth College, Vanderbilt University, the University of Texas-Austin, the University of Arizona, Brown University, and the University of Virginia.

Newsom said [last] Thursday in an all-caps Trump-emulating statement that any California university that signed the compact would “instantly” lose state funds, saying California would not “BANKROLL SCHOOLS THAT SELL OUT THEIR STUDENTS, PROFESSORS, RESEARCHERS, AND SURRENDER ACADEMIC FREEDOM.” 

Full story at https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article312372038.html.