Days after the Trump administration vowed that UCLA would pay a “heavy price” for violating the rights of Jewish and Israeli students, the federal government froze an estimated $200 million in medical and science research funding for the university.

In a campus message issued Thursday, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk called the decision “a loss for Americans across the nation whose work, health, and future depend on the groundbreaking work we do.”

“With this decision, hundreds of grants may be lost, adversely affecting the lives and life-changing work of UCLA researchers, faculty and staff,” Frenk said. “In its notice to us, the federal government claims antisemitism and bias as the reasons. This far-reaching penalty of defunding life-saving research does nothing to address any alleged discr

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