The U.S. Justice Department is asking for $1 billion from the University of California, Los Angeles in exchange for re-starting federal funding to the public land-grant research institution, school officials confirmed.

The Trump administration is calling on UCLA to pay more than $1 billion to settle allegations that it violated the rights of Jewish and Israeli students, according to a report out Friday. According to a draft of a proposed settlement sent to the university Friday and obtained by CNN,

President Donald Trump demanded a massive $1 billion fine from the prestigious University of California system on Friday as the administration pushed its claims of antisemitism in UCLA's response to 2024 student protests related to Gaza.