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UC Unions, Faculty and Students Sue Trump Over UCLA Funding Freeze and $1.2 Billion Demand

The filing challenges the use of federal grant freezes as leverage to force sweeping policy changes at the university.

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Trump's actions against UCLA and other campuses “have caused a pervasive sense of fear and intimidation among UC faculty, students, academic employees, and staff employees," labor groups alleged in a lawsuit Tuesday.
People walk through the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., August 11, 2025. REUTERS/Daniel Cole/File Photo
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Overview

  • A coalition of 21 unions and faculty associations representing more than 100,000 UC employees filed suit in federal court in San Francisco seeking to block the administration’s funding threats and restore suspended grants.
  • Plaintiffs allege violations of the First and Tenth Amendments and the Administrative Procedure Act, arguing the government is attempting to control campus policies and speech under the pretext of civil-rights enforcement.
  • Federal agencies have frozen roughly $584 million in UCLA research funding, and a judge has ordered about $83 million in National Science Foundation grants restored while hundreds of millions remain paused.
  • A leaked 28-page settlement proposal reported at about $1.2 billion over five years includes directives on admissions and hiring, protest restrictions, an end to certain diversity programs, data disclosures, limits tied to gender identity, and broad federal access to UC records.
  • UC President James B. Milliken calls the situation one of the gravest threats in UC history as regents meet in San Francisco, and UC Berkeley says it provided about 160 names to federal investigators during the probes that have used prior settlements with Columbia and Brown as a template.