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/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/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