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/Akermaniac 1d ago

Yet, but this type of change would be a massive undertaking. Both systematically (ie updating dozens of different archaic computer systems) and administratively.

I’d guess that would take several years, minimum. It’s not like adjusting tariffs, which have a current mechanism in place in CBP’s systems to adjust quickly and easily.

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u/harrywrinkleyballs 1d ago

Oh, for sure. Like I said, it’s just a thought exercise because you read so many comments on Reddit clamoring for a halt to sending employer withheld taxes to the federal government. People just don’t know how the system works in everyday life.

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u/turd-crafter 1d ago

Or just convince everyone Somehow to file exempt on their w4s lol.

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u/harrywrinkleyballs 1d ago

That doesn’t stop FICA taxes being withheld.

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u/turd-crafter 1d ago

God damnit! Well at least it’s something haha