In a page out of Trump’s operating manual, Newsom is threatening to withhold state funding for what he calls ‘sell-out universities’ that agree to the President’s demandsGov. On Thursday, Newsom warned California schools and universities that he would cut “billions” in state funding, including to USC, from any campus that signs a Trump administration pledge that promises federal funding to any school that adopts sweeping conservative campus policies. “If any California University signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding — including Cal Grants — instantly,” Newsom said. In return, those schools will be on the favorability list for the President’s federally funded research grants and other monies. “It would impose strict government-mandated definitions of academic terms, erase diversity, and rip control away from campus leaders to install government-mandated conservative ideology in its place.