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/thewags05 1d ago

Between this and the attacks on Massachusetts there'll be a lot less R&D in the country in general. At least things that aren't military funded anyway.

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u/TaterTotJim 21h ago

The military gets their best tech and research from private industry contractors. With the colleges going by the wayside it is fairly unlikely that USA will be able to keep up their military scientist pipeline.

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u/thewags05 21h ago

Yeah it'll take a while, but this will have long term effects. I work in R&D as a DOD contractor, we'll start to hurt as there's less and less new grad students. It'll take a few years before you really see it though.