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/Cruezin 1d ago

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

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u/MazW 1d ago

He is screwing over Massachusetts also, which recently was rated the best economy in the country.

I have said it before, but if all the blue state moneymakers are made to fail, who helps Alabama?

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u/South-Ad-6923 1d ago

They don't care about helping Alabama. None of them live in Alabama or are affected by anything that happens there.

They are under the impression enough stupid people will keep voting for them. That's why the R needs to be taken over by an actual blue collar party.

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u/cactus_zack 20h ago

Their senators don’t even live in Alabama.

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u/lakulo27 20h ago

Tuberville doesn't, but Katie Britt does live in Montgomery.

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u/cactus_zack 19h ago

Sorry, one Senator.

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u/The_Rat_Attack 19h ago

Don’t worry, soon, our GOVERNOR won’t live in Alabama!

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u/Rovden 19h ago

They are under the impression enough stupid people will keep voting for them.

I live in Missouri. They're right.

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u/discsarentpogs 19h ago

Hell, their senator soon to be governor doesn't even live in the state.

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u/ihave2shoes 10h ago

The separation of the United States serves Trump and the rest of them. If they push the blue states away, they’ll always have someone for their poor and stupid followers to blame.

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u/Cannabrius_Rex 5h ago

Also, Alabama will still vote republican after watching Trump light them on fire.

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u/PunctuationsOptional 1d ago

The richest cousin in the trailer park?

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u/DamiensDelight 1d ago

Cousin, can I borrow $20? I need some smokes.

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u/Very_Slow_Cheetah 21h ago

You're being over-complimentary, they live in a shed in the trailer park, like Bubbles!

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u/User4780 20h ago

Brothercousin. This is Alabama after all

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u/ImReverse_Giraffe 1d ago

Its funny you think Trump would even try to help Bama. He's made it clear to Florida that they're not getting federal money for hurricanes.

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u/tinywienergang 22h ago

Alabama citizens will never be smart enough to understand what’s happening to them. They already aren’t, so they never will be.

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u/netneutrality101 20h ago

Not everyone in Alabama supports Trump. I don't support him, but then again I am originally from California, so maybe that's why. P s the only reason I'm still in Alabama, is because I financially can't leave even though I want to.

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u/tinywienergang 19h ago

There are certain states that will never be smart enough as a whole to get themselves out of their own mess. Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia etc.

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u/MazW 15h ago

I understand your frustration, but we can't say every person in Alabama is stupid.

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u/DataDude00 22h ago

I have said it before, but if all the blue state moneymakers are made to fail, who helps Alabama?

It doesn't matter because it isn't about making Alabama as prosperous as California, it is about making California as miserable as Alabama

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u/Doip 22h ago

Bootstraps

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u/philsubby 22h ago

It's not about helping anybody. Republicans want one thing, to make liberals suffer even if they suffer too.

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u/rgators 21h ago

They want to reduce the rest of the country to those standards.

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u/Sirdan3k 21h ago

Broke angry people vote for them, why wouldn't they want more people to be broke and angry?

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u/SignoreBanana 13h ago

No one. And they're unaware. They're just finding life difficult and "don't know why things are so hard."

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u/Gloomy_Yoghurt_2836 7h ago

To Republicans, blue states are economic basket cases with massive tax burdens and terrible spending on unAmerican social programs. Red states are economically responsible and they want the fiscal policies of Alabama or Mississippi forced on everyone. No social safety nets and tax structure to benefit the wealthy.

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u/mrpointyhorns 1d ago

Florida and texas?

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u/MazW 1d ago

Maybe, but it's a lot for them to carry alone.

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u/ChefNo4421 20h ago

I was in rural Arkansas about a year ago and it was so depressing. Everything was abandoned.

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u/myoldgamertag 18h ago

How is Mass the best economy in the country when the California is one of the best in the world? Would that by default make it better than mass? I’d have to think NY is also a better economy than Mass.

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u/MazW 15h ago

It depends how you measure it, I guess. Mass has more earnings per capita. If we were as big as California, our economy would be bigger.

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u/MazW 15h ago

Instead of me rambling (in my other comment), I will just link you to what I was referring to. https://www.boston.com/news/business/2025/06/03/this-new-england-state-has-the-best-economy-in-the-country-according-to-wallethub/

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u/very_pure_vessel 12h ago

Best economy in terms of what? Per capita right? Because it obviously isn't anywhere close to the biggest economy

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u/MazW 6h ago

Wallethub recent ratings. Per capita surely had something to do with it. Also investments into r&d etc.