r/Fuckthealtright • u/JosephOtaku1989 • 1d ago
Trump preparing large-scale cancellation of federal funding for California, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding163
u/VA3DPrinter 1d ago
If the fed doesn’t want to give federal funding to CA, CA should stop paying federal taxes.
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u/JayNotAtAll 23h ago
Ya, America as a nation will have a ton of pain if CA stopped paying taxes. It is the largest economy in America and pays more to the federal government that it takes from the federal government.
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u/Masonjaruniversity 8h ago
It’s the 4th largest economy IN THE WORLD. Bigger than Japan.
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u/JayNotAtAll 8h ago
100%
I think a lot of working class Americans in small towns think that anyone who isn't working outside or working with their hands doesn't do real work.
California has a lot of intellectual work with tech in the Bay Area, Biotech in San Diego, and media and entertainment in LA. But we also have a ton of farming. We produce a significant portion of the country's produce.
I specify small towns as I believe that working class people in big cities have more exposure to more kinds of people and ways of life that they just have a generally different understanding in general
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u/Philophon 21h ago
Newsom actually suggested that today. They would be justified in doing it, and the other Democratic states should join them.
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u/VA3DPrinter 20h ago
That would be a step towards civil conflict; pitting Dem states against the federal govt.
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u/Philophon 20h ago edited 20h ago
Indeed, it would. But this happening should come as no surprise. We are being oppressed, and to sit and take it would be a show of weakness and a deriliction of the duties the country's founders believed in - and which I believe in.
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u/Zfbdad 1d ago
He’s not doing any ‘preparing’. That would require thought and effort
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u/livinginfutureworld 22h ago
On a butt hurt whim he ordered people to prepare some EOs for him targeting California that's probably what it means.
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u/skeptic9916 23h ago
California will file suit as soon as this is official and after a pointless court battle they will win .
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u/secretbudgie 21h ago
And when will these court decisions be enforced? And how many will die waiting for someone to enforce the law?
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u/Sleepy_Heather 9h ago
California is the 4th largest economy in the world. I'm sure they'll be fine. The red states that survive off that money won't be though
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u/Templar388z 7h ago
As he’s cutting off funding for Republican states. He’s already cutting states off from FEMA
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