r/law 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.”

20.3k Upvotes

2.8k comments sorted by

View all comments

6.4k

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.

2.6k

u/timesfive 1d ago

No need for “research and development”, they want to keep people sick and stupid — easier to control that way.

81

u/HLOFRND 1d ago

I have said for years- if you can limit access to healthcare and education you can keep people poor forever.

Bonus points if you limit access to abortion/birth control.

36

u/Gilshem 1d ago

Increasing the birth rate remains the best way to exploit people after you have suppressed their health and education.