As campus tensions escalate over student encampments to protest the war in Gaza -- with canceled classes, violent clashes and mass arrests in recent days -- Republican leaders in the California Legislature are calling for the state to use its upcoming budget process to punish demonstrators who they say have gone too far.
Senate Republican Leader Brian Jones of San Diego and Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher of Chico announced today that they would push to strip state financial aid from protesters found to have committed violent or criminal acts or violated other students' rights.
Gavin Newsom for not intervening. They said they would also seek to withhold funding in the upcoming budget from University of California and California State University campuses that did not respond adequately to the protests -- perhaps an amount equal to state resources spent on providing law enforcement and cleaning up damage. "It's outrageous and it's unacceptable that we've allowed this chaos to ensue over weeks," Gallagher said.
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