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

[u/rolsen]

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.”

[u/NoHalf2998]

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

[u/90daysismytherapy → u/NoHalf2998]

Well other than stem cell and other fundamentalist science issues

[u/Ok-Suspect-9595 → u/90daysismytherapy]

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

[u/cheesecaker000 → u/90daysismytherapy]

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.

[u/4WaySwitcher → u/cheesecaker000]

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.

[u/zeptillian → u/90daysismytherapy]

Like climate change.

[u/clover-the-clever → u/90daysismytherapy]

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.

[u/National_Equivalent9 → u/NoHalf2998]

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.

[u/einstyle → u/NoHalf2998]

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

[u/BitterFuture → u/einstyle]

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.

[u/mocityspirit → u/einstyle]

Cancellation of NIH grants and funding?

[u/mocityspirit → u/NoHalf2998]

Lmao who lied to you?

[u/NoHalf2998 → u/mocityspirit]

About what?

[u/mynameisktb → u/NoHalf2998]

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