Trump admin pushes $1 billion settlement proposal on UCLA

• Democratic lawmakers have threatened to investigate Harvard if it caves in to pressure from the administration to accept a $500 million proposal.

What they're saying: University of California President James Milliken said in a statement on Friday it received the Justice Department offer and is reviewing it.

• "Earlier this week, we offered to engage in good faith dialogue with the Department to protect the University and its critical research mission," Milliken said. "As a public university, we are stewards of taxpayer resources and a payment of this scale would completely devastate our country's greatest public university system as well as inflict great harm on our students and all Californians."
• Approximately $584 million in extramural award funding "is suspended and at risk," UCLA chancellor Julio Frenk said in a letter to the school community on Wednesday.
• "We are doing everything we can to protect the interests of faculty, students and staff — and to defend our values and principles," Frenk said.

Editor's note: This story has been updated with a statement from the university president.