The Trump administration has proposed a $1 billion settlement with UCLA amid a larger battle over federal funding. The sum would have disastrous effects on the university, school officials 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,” James B. Milliken, the president of the University of California system, said in a statement.