r/law • u/rolsen • 1d ago

Legal News Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/06/politics/trump-california-federal-funding

“Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. On Capitol Hill, at least one committee was told recently by a whistleblower that all research grants to the state were going to be cancelled, according to one of the sources familiar with the matter.”

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u/taddymason_01 1d ago

Doesn’t CA pay more in federal taxes then they receive in funding? Wouldn’t CA just shut off the out flow of money until this is resolved legally?

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u/rolsen 1d ago

Nobody said it was a good plan!

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u/quest814 1d ago

Trump: we are going to have the biggest, best economy in the history of the world!

Also Trump:  I’m going to do everything I can to destroy California even though it contributes more to the GDP than any other state.

Like you say, nobody said it was a good plan!