California Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the suspension of funding for the university over allegations of antisemitism.

The Trump administration has frozen more than $300 million in National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health and other federal agency-funded research at UCLA, citing allegations the school discriminates in admissions and has failed to protect the civil rights of Jewish students.

Trump suspended the loophole in February for China, Mexico and Canada, but he reinstated it to allow Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to establish protocol for collecting tariff revenue on low-value imports that would be eligible for the exemption.

With Kamala Harris out of the California governor's race, other candidates are jockeying to be seen as the new front runner. Some analysts said that's "ludicrous," and that no one stands out yet.