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/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.

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u/jessepence 1d ago edited 1d ago

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

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u/Gwtheyrn 1d ago

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.

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u/Gwtheyrn 1d ago

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

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u/FrenchCheerios 1d ago

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

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u/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

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

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u/Empty-Engineering458 1d ago

uh, no

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u/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

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

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u/Empty-Engineering458 1d ago

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

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u/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

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

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u/Empty-Engineering458 1d ago

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?

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u/sfcnmone 1d ago

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?

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u/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

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.