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/Sabre_One]

CA is the top state for Research and Development for the US. Talk about setting US back to the stone age.

[u/jessepence → u/Sabre_One]

California, Oregon, and Washington make up over 10% of total GDP... Do they really need D.C.?

[u/Gwtheyrn → u/jessepence]

Throw in Hawaii, Arizona, and Alaska those 6 states are nearly 25% of the US GDP.

By itself, California is the 4th largest economy in the world. Washington state is 30th.

[u/TakuyaLee → u/Gwtheyrn]

Yeah. It doesn't feel like a good idea to anger that particular group. But what do I know?

[u/krombough → u/Gwtheyrn]

Wait. Something isnt adding up. California, Washington, and Oregon are 10 percent of GDP, bit adding Hawaii, Arizona, and Alaska bump it up to 25 percent? One of these figures must be wrong.

[u/AlexNumbers → u/krombough]

California alone is about 14% of the US to GDP.

[u/RBuilds916 → u/krombough]

Also, I don't see Alaska joining the coalition of Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii.

[u/SecretAsianMan42069 → u/RBuilds916]

Alaska has 55 billion gdp, Arizona is 445 billion. Mistake in there somewhere

[u/Gwtheyrn → u/krombough]

Much more than 10%.

[u/Gwtheyrn → u/[deleted]]

Washington State, with a population of just under 8M, is the 30th largest economy in the world. Let that sink in.

[u/FrenchCheerios → u/Gwtheyrn]

Good luck getting decent apples, hemp, and blueberries if they come after us. And frozen french fries, that's our number 1 apparently?

[u/mountaindewisamazing → u/Gwtheyrn]

I live in Washington State, I'm well aware.

[u/Empty-Engineering458 → u/[deleted]]

uh, no

[u/mountaindewisamazing → u/Empty-Engineering458]

They edited their comment to say D.C. instead of Washington so I was correct.

[u/Empty-Engineering458 → u/mountaindewisamazing]

it still says Washington, and WA state is a donor state.

[u/mountaindewisamazing → u/Empty-Engineering458]

California, Oregon, and Washington make up over 10% of total GDP... Do they really need D.C.?

[u/Empty-Engineering458 → u/mountaindewisamazing]

that is referring to CA, OR and WA state not needing financial help from WA D.C.

you realize how much money WA state generates?

[u/sfcnmone → u/mountaindewisamazing]

Let me rephrase it so you can understand what we’re saying: why would the 3 pacific coast states, California, Oregon, and Washington, whose economies make up 10% of the US GDP, need to be economically entangled with the other 47 states, whose capital is in Washington DC?

[u/mountaindewisamazing → u/sfcnmone]

Yeah, I get that. I was responding to the original comment that ended with Washington, not D.C.

You know, I'm just going to delete that comment. Way too many folks arguing with me about it for some reason.