Posted on 10/02/2025 4:52:44 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Gov. Gavin Newsom on Thursday threatened to cut “billions” in state funding, including to USC, from any California campus that signs a Trump administration compact and agrees to sweeping and largely conservative campus policies in exchange for priority access to federal funding.
“If any California University signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding — including Cal Grants — instantly,” Newsom said. “California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom.”
The bold statement came less than a day after the the White House asked the University of Southern California and eight other major universities throughout the country to shift to the right and agree to Trump’s views on gender identity, admissions, diversity and free speech among other areas — in exchange for more favorable access to federal research grants and additional funding.
Universities were asked to sign a “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” committing them to adopt the White House’s conservative vision for America’s campuses. The letter, sent out Wednesday, also suggests colleges should align with Trump’s views on student discipline, college affordability and the importance of hard sciences over liberal arts.
The request represents the latest tactic by the Trump administration to aggressively reshape universities — which he says are bastions of liberalism that are intolerant of Republicans — by leveraging federal funding to force campuses adhere to his conservative ideals.
Newsom’s quick swing back ratchets up his strident push against the Trump administration — including mocking Trump’s social media. Newsom’s statement Thursday was issued in all-capital letters, mirroring the president’s trademark social media style.
The compact would also severely restrict international student enrollment to 15% of a college’s undergraduate student body and no more than 5% could come from a single country, a provision that would...
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Because he doesn’t care about them.
Win - Win! So much winning!
That’s not a rooster. It’s a dog with a glove on its head!
Just to be clear, this move by Newsome means that Democrats can’t object to Trump using his office to torch funding for the agencies he doesn’t like, now they can only object to his specific choices.
If a recall would dump this idiot, then the state funding could continue.
BMOC Trump
Newscum has stolen Trump’s agenda. What a greaseball punk.
Can he do that?
Sort of a....civil war.
Two sides viciously hate each other and want to bring the other side down. Taking no prisoners.
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