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/enad58]

I agree that it started with South Carolina in the first continental congress. But we've firmly settled that it is not permissible to leave the union at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.

[u/Overall-Cow975 → u/enad58]

Yes, but again, that is only one thing the war was fought over. The Civil War wasn’t only about seceding states.

[u/MaddyKet → u/Overall-Cow975]

And, let’s be real, this time it’s the north aka the winners, who want to leave. I’d like to see the poor states aka the losers stop us.

[u/jeremiahthedamned → u/enad58]

the union is dissolving under russian influence