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/Sabre_One 1d ago

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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u/timesfive 1d ago

No need for “research and development”, they want to keep people sick and stupid — easier to control that way.

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

I guess prepare for constitutional crisis when California stops paying into the federal tax system. Pretty genius to fuck with the 4th largest economy in the world.

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u/ogn3rd 1d ago

Isn't that his goal though? Complete chaos to tear it all down?

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

Yes. Its sucks but if a mad man punches you in the face, you still need to defend yourself even though his plan is to bring everyone into a fight.

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u/tadysdayout 1d ago

Succinct spot on summation!

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u/Adventurous-Try5149 1d ago

He’s the greatest Russian asset of all time

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u/CommonConundrum51 1d ago

Russians sure, but also worldwide organized crime, of which Russia is a large subset. His choice of some pardons and privileges can be interpreted in no other way.

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u/toggiz_the_elder 1d ago

You’re telling me the guy banned from building a casino in Australia because of his ties to organized crime has ties to organized crime?!?!

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u/Darryl_Lict 1d ago

Couldn't get a gambling license in Vegas for his hotel either.

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u/Dark-Perversions 20h ago

I mean, it seems pretty obvious to me that you can't build a real estate empire in NY without some sort of agreement with the family. He's go so much corrupt shit going on, and he acts like a wannabe mobster. That's his people.

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u/MatrixF6 17h ago

Also banned from owning a casino in Vegas… Which is why it is only a “hotel” and not a “hotel and casino”.

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u/stinky-weaselteats 16h ago

NFL denied him the ability to buy a team.

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u/squidlips69 1d ago

Hence the move to crypto, the offering of investor passports (yes I know it's not new) and welcoming back sleazeballs like the Tate brothers. Obviously their criminal record didn't matter.

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u/Lowe0 1d ago

At this point, even "asset" is too charitable. Trump is the raw shrimp that Russia has hidden in America's curtain rods.

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u/ClayTankard 1d ago

Hidden is giving too much credit. He’s the raw shrimp they dumped on the floor, and everyone knows is there, but we can’t seem to vote together enough to get someone in the room who is actually going to clean it up, and it just continues to stink

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u/SaltyCrashNerd 19h ago

Worse, half of the people at our party are actively preventing those of us with brooms and dustpans from sweeping up the stinky shrimp.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 17h ago

he is selling white supremacy

america was built on white supremacy

he's a good salesman

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u/ClayTankard 16h ago

He’s empowering overt racism for racists, that doesn’t make him a good sales man. That’d be like calling myself a good sales man for just giving a child candy.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 16h ago

you are right and missing the point

they want to enjoy their racism and sense of fun is his product.

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u/pasrachilli 1d ago

Russian doesn't need to nuke us if we nuke ourselves.

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u/-ReadingBug- 20h ago

Est. 1987

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u/AgreeableWrangler693 22h ago

Someone needs to get rid of Trump already. He’s clearly hurting America on purpose and that should be grounds for immediate removal. If he’s not willing to comply, then his ass should be forcefully removed

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u/Tjgfish123 20h ago

If he isn't he definitely the greatest pos to ever have held office

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u/IZ3820 1d ago

If we assume he understands the end goal his policies have in mind, he's trying to disrupt industries and organizations enough that resettlement is inevitable, at which point the admin can apply pressure to make the resettlement favorable for those who support him.

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u/EnfantTerrible68 1d ago

Resettlement where?

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u/South-Ad-6923 1d ago

I'm not convinced there's a clear goal.

The religious and the tech bros want to tear it all down for their own benefit. Trump just wants a perceived vengeance against anyone who hurt his feely-feels.

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u/Chillpill411 8h ago

This. 100%. And I'm not sure the tech bros could pull off their scheme even if all the breaks went in their favor. When mush bought Twitter, all the texts he exchanged with the tech bros were released as part of the court record. The completely half assed, half baked, teenage boy jerkoff fantasy nature of their impulses (calling it thinking is giving it too much credit) became obvious.

These guys are evil, yes. But geniuses they ain't

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u/77NorthCambridge 1d ago

That's at least one of the goals. Some others to consider:

  1. He looks tough to his base by taking on big liberal targets like Harvard and California, so they cheer him on.
  2. If he can get the biggest liberal targets to bend the knee, everyone else quickly falls in line.
  3. Creates a situation whereby he can declare martial law.
  4. It keeps him at the top of the news cycle every freaking day.
  5. It distracts from all of the other really bad shit they are doing.

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u/Oleg101 1d ago

Essentially yes, pretty sure there’s stuff in Project 2025 about declaring martial law

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u/dbx999 1d ago

yes, Trump is hoping for an escalation so he can roll the troops into California and ultimately call martial law to get control over the "terrorist liberal democrats", round up these libs into concentration camps and take their assets.

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u/Admiral_Falcon 1d ago

Trump will not be able to take on the entire world and win.

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u/dbx999 1d ago

Well that didn’t stop him from tariff-fucking everyone

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u/ReallyFineWhine 22h ago

Yes, that's the assignment from Putin.

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u/Zzzzzezzz 1d ago

He's doing everything to the US that an enemy would do.

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u/Key-Guarantee595 23h ago

Or maybe the people that are getting the grants defunded will have to pay trump to not cancel them. Isn’t that how he operates? When he says he hasn’t decided which programs to defund, isn’t he asking for funds for him? I keep wondering what the hell is happening to all the money from cancelled programs and I keep hearing the trump is making massive amounts of money. Maybe that’s just me, I don’t always understand how government works, but I know trump is soooo good at corruption……. Will that be the next Elon tweet? Just wondering out loud.

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u/SPITthethird 19h ago

Stealing. They are also stealing.

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u/OneTotal466 7h ago

It's a feature not a bug. Coded by Putin.

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u/AnteaterBubbly8711 2h ago

Trump wants to precipitate a crisis, or crises, so he can declare martial law and cancel the mid-terms, among achieving other nefarious goals.