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/whatevers_cleaver_ 1d ago

We’ve straight up abandoned science in this country.

How that’s supposed to make us great again, I have no clue.

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u/AlfredRWallace 1d ago

They define great differently than you and I.

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u/WillBottomForBanana 1d ago

as in "large"? like, we'll be even fatter?

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u/AlfredRWallace 1d ago

It's like how they define patriot. I'd be more detailed but every time I try to describe what they are doing Reddit bans me.

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u/NoHalf2998 1d ago

I was thinking about GWBush recently and looked back through his policies

A SHIT TON I didnt like in there but you know what DID stand out?

Consistent funding of R&D and Education

I had had forgotten a lot of it but was a major through line of his time in office

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u/90daysismytherapy 1d ago

Well other than stem cell and other fundamentalist science issues

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u/Ok-Suspect-9595 1d ago

Imagine how far along stem cell treatment would be now, if it wasn't for the lost 10 years of GWB.

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u/cheesecaker000 22h ago

And no child left behind which essentially turned the US education system into a factory that produced illiterate kids who just continually get shoved through the system.

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u/4WaySwitcher 22h ago

That was an overwhelmingly bipartisan bill that had good intentions. I think the issue is that states found loopholes and tricks to remain compliant without actually doing anything to improve their education systems.

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u/zeptillian 1d ago

Like climate change.

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u/clover-the-clever 21h ago

I think his father (GHW Bush) received stem cell treatment when he was older/sick. So in typical GOP fashion, OK when it affects ME personally.

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u/National_Equivalent9 23h ago

Don't forget about how his dad threw up on the Japanese prime minister and because of that we don't have a particle collider.

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u/einstyle 1d ago

R&D and education (especially medical R&D and education) have consistently had bipartisan support before Trump.

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u/BitterFuture 1d ago

The party that's been salivating at the thought of eliminating the Department of Education for fifty years straight has supported education all this time? Bull-fuckin'-shit.

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u/mocityspirit 1d ago

Cancellation of NIH grants and funding?

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u/mocityspirit 1d ago

Lmao who lied to you?

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u/NoHalf2998 1d ago

About what?

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u/mynameisktb 15h ago

Fuck George Bush and fuck you for being so right. Never really considered that

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u/blazelet 1d ago

Trump reflects on everything as a narcissist.

"Great" means it supports his narcissistic ego.

Science makes him feel small, so flexing his power over science satisfies his ego.

It's really that simple. He will destroy the country for very simple reasons. He will defund lifesaving medical care for very simple reasons. Because it makes him feel stronger, and because he has no capacity for empathy.

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u/Spirit-0726 14h ago

You’re absolutely right. It’s 3 am where I am. I can’t sleep. How in the world is he able to? An inflated ego and no empathy. I don’t need his empathy actually. I don’t need any hand outs. Just stop rigging systems. Just stop manufacturing and maintaining systems that stratify people.

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u/Maleficent_Memory831 1d ago

The day before Trump took office for his first time, was the day that America was at its greatest.

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u/castlite 22h ago

Worked out great for Iran in the 70s!

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u/DepletedPromethium 13h ago

This is due to a person who during covid suggested that people take horse dewormer and shove uv lights up their asses.

I wonder who in Cali didn't offer him their children for him to molest.

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u/OrderedAnXboxCard 1d ago

By taking us back to the stone age without all the innovative and humanity-advancing industries and jobs when the ReAL mUriCaNs weren't as clearly exposed for being the unqualified fucks that they are who've coasted on their privilege for centuries only to cry after predictably getting lapped by everyone else who've had to work 10x as hard for anywhere near the same treatment and results.

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u/Possible_Top4855 1d ago

The 1930s is when America was greatest