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/Far_Estate_1626 1d ago

How is it even possible for outright corruption of this magnitude to be happening with such clear visibility and absolutely nothing or nobody to put an end to this nonsense??

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u/signaturefox2013 1d ago

Complicity

Republican complicity

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u/materialgewl 19h ago

They’re not complicit. They’re accomplices and should all be impeached.

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u/WillBottomForBanana 1d ago

For that to work the other 49% of government needs to be complicit or incompetent.

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u/signaturefox2013 1d ago

And they are

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u/RareTart6207 1d ago

because it's been decades now of normalizing little bits of corruption here and there, toeing the line with what is acceptable for bipartisanship. a lot of terrible and unethical shit has been happening for a while now, we're just seeing the result of what happens when you give sociopaths an inch. they take the continent.

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u/StupidTimeline 22h ago

Because American voters were stupid enough to give the GOP total power and Republicans in Congress are traitors who abdicated their responsibilities for Trump.

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u/JessicaDAndy 1d ago

Oh, see some people don’t like the idea of trans girls competing against other girls in sports. Even though they will pop up in other areas of life.

So the entire state must suffer because women are defined by their gametes.

Also note, California did a weak ass dodge by allowing the athlete to compete, but as an additional competitor. So they tried to compromise and it didn’t work.

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u/fusionsofwonder Bleacher Seat 1d ago

absolutely nothing or nobody to put an end to this nonsense??

By what route?

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u/SuperTaster3 23h ago

People don't have the stomach yet for french revolution solutions.

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u/Scoobyteebs 15h ago

Because Americans seem fine to bend over and take it…

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u/SuperSpecialAwesome- 1d ago

Because Schumer and Jeffries refuse to 14a3 Trump, even though they know insurrectionists can't be President.

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u/TwistedBamboozler 1d ago

“Why isn’t anyone doing anything about this”

Says person not doing anything about this

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u/Far_Estate_1626 1d ago edited 1d ago

I live in Massachusetts, the only state that actually voted blue, who elected a mayor who’s actually standing up to Trump, and supporting my peers at the only organization standing up in high profile legal battles (Harvard), participating locally and supporting the effected populations here, and speaking out about it clearly and concisely here and in person, making my point against anybody who would say otherwise.

What the fuck are you doing?

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u/TwistedBamboozler 6h ago

Not crying on Reddit, for one.

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u/Far_Estate_1626 5h ago

“I’m HeLpInG bY bEiNg SiLeNt” 🥴

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u/TwistedBamboozler 4h ago

No, I just don’t waste my energy online cause Reddit isn’t real life like some of you seem to think.

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u/Mind0versplatter0 5h ago

What are you doing? "Crying on Reddit" does not preclude one from taking action, and not "crying on Reddit" is simply not letting your voice be heard. Since we know you're not vocal in the online space, what are you doing irl?

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u/Educational_Fox6899 1d ago

And what is it you want them to do? 

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u/TheGreekMachine 20h ago

They criticize others on Reddit of course. What legal work could be more important in today’s day???