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Newsom threatens to cut state funding to universities that sign Trump’s political compact
Los Angeles Times ^ | Oct. 2, 2025 Updated 1:30 PM PT | Jaweed Kaleem, Melody Gutierrez and Aamer Madhani

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...

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: arrestgavinnewsom; california; gavinnewsom; greasygavin; karenbass; laslimes; losangeles; mediabias; newsomfornia; sedition

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1 posted on 10/02/2025 4:52:45 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is more fun watching than a cock fight.


2 posted on 10/02/2025 4:53:35 PM PDT by rovenstinez
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Game on!


3 posted on 10/02/2025 4:54:44 PM PDT by ComputerGuy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Buy popcorn futures! This is getting good.


4 posted on 10/02/2025 4:55:23 PM PDT by FatherofFive (We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Newsom is a jucking foke.


5 posted on 10/02/2025 4:55:53 PM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He’s the Zelensky of CA. He has no cards...

Based on USC’s fiscal year 2024 financial data (ending June 30, 2024), the university received approximately $1.35 billion in total federal funding and an estimated $20–30 million in California state funding. This results in federal funding being roughly 45–67 times higher than state funding. These figures are derived from USC’s official reports and financial updates;


6 posted on 10/02/2025 4:57:30 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Can’t fedgov play this game, too?


7 posted on 10/02/2025 4:59:07 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (NO rooftop security at the Charlie Kirk assassination event? Did we learn nothing from Butler, PA?)
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To: rovenstinez

Jerry: Marriage is a big step, Elaine. Your life’ll totally change.
Elaine Benes: Jerry, it’s three-thirty in the morning. I’m at a cockfight. What am I clinging to?


8 posted on 10/02/2025 4:59:56 PM PDT by xp38
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Steelers Wheel......


9 posted on 10/02/2025 5:00:05 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The universities need to appeal to some judges in Texas or South Dakota or maybe even Oklahoma, to get this shut down.


10 posted on 10/02/2025 5:00:44 PM PDT by Yogafist
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Mighty fascist of him, wouldn’t you say?


11 posted on 10/02/2025 5:03:51 PM PDT by cross_bearer_02
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“””Steelers Wheel......””””

Yup.


12 posted on 10/02/2025 5:05:25 PM PDT by shelterguy
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The left, getting bummed in the bum from both sides is a bummer


13 posted on 10/02/2025 5:07:38 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

NewSCUM should stick to doing what he does best, setting cities on fire, he is really good at that


14 posted on 10/02/2025 5:14:44 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gavin is working on his balanced State budget?


15 posted on 10/02/2025 5:15:38 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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LASlimes characterizes getting rid of some of the Satanic racism at the university.... as “playing into Trump’s political agenda”

it is no wonder that the LASlimes lost so much of its franchise.

(And lest we forget, the LASlimes held.. and I believe still holds... the tape of Obammy or whatever his real name might be....spewing anti-American BS at a lunch with Moslem $$$$ donors)?


16 posted on 10/02/2025 5:17:26 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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Trump is pretty close to making Gavin act like “full grown baby.”


17 posted on 10/02/2025 5:18:50 PM PDT by Right Brigade (A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

How about the feds just cut ALL federal funding for CA in response?


18 posted on 10/02/2025 5:19:16 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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“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.”

Could a person be more clueless?????????

What depth of deception and to think people CHOOSE to go that route. Unreal.

19 posted on 10/02/2025 5:21:29 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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It’s safer to go with Trump


20 posted on 10/02/2025 5:25:45 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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