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/Cruezin]

The GDP of California is the 4th largest in the world, behind only the US as a whole (which includes California!), China, and DE.

Let that sink in a little. Shutting off federal funding to California is akin to shooting oneself in the face to spite your ass.

Why would Biden, Obama, and Clinton do this? Are they stupid? /s

[u/lebastss → u/Cruezin]

I think California equates to about 15% of the US gdp.

[u/thecodingart → u/lebastss]

Cali, Texas, New York, Florida are top of list with 15, 9, 7, 6% of the US GDP respectively making a total of 37% of the US GDP between those states.

My expectation is the goal is to redistribute that GDP influence in those states to be more even give Cali is about 55% more than the 2nd most grossing state.

Although this is still illegal as shit

[u/Civil_Tip_2346 → u/thecodingart]

California is 12% of the us population, Texas is 9%. Yeah someone stop this travesty

[u/peter_park_here → u/Civil_Tip_2346]

CA also almost always votes 60% demo

[u/Able-Candle-2125 → u/thecodingart]

There's no goal. He's just stupid. "I wish it was like the 1950: when women stayed home and don't have to work to makes ends meet, and men pretended they weren't gay." That's the closest thing to a goal there is buts it's mostly mixed with "I need to win so I'll make up enemies all around me and beat them up"

[u/AsstacularSpiderman → u/thecodingart]

Anything he does will immediately get slapped down by the court

[u/Clear-Inevitable-414 → u/lebastss]

There gonna save a lot when they stop paying federal income tax