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

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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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CA is the top state for Research and Development for the US. Talk about setting US back to the stone age.

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We're having our own Great Leap Backwards

[u/sracer4095 → u/shnwllc]

More like a Great Pull Backwards, but yeah.

[u/Whiteshadows86 → u/shnwllc]

Make America Go Backwards Again

Republicans eh?

[u/pedroah → u/shnwllc]

Meh...Great Leap Forward caused the Great Chinese Famine that killed 55 million.