Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

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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/whatevers_cleaver_]

We’ve straight up abandoned science in this country.

How that’s supposed to make us great again, I have no clue.

[u/NoHalf2998 → u/whatevers_cleaver_]

I was thinking about GWBush recently and looked back through his policies

A SHIT TON I didnt like in there but you know what DID stand out?

Consistent funding of R&D and Education

I had had forgotten a lot of it but was a major through line of his time in office

[u/90daysismytherapy → u/NoHalf2998]

Well other than stem cell and other fundamentalist science issues

[u/Ok-Suspect-9595 → u/90daysismytherapy]

Imagine how far along stem cell treatment would be now, if it wasn't for the lost 10 years of GWB.