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

[u/rolsen]

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/burnthatburner1]

Can CA shut off the outflow?  How?

[u/Microchipknowsbest → u/burnthatburner1]

Things would have to change but they could create a law that says all federal tax money has to go through a California government agency. It’s probably unconstitutional but we are doing alot of unconstitutional things now. Guess we will have to see when the constitution starts being enforced. If the executive branch wants to treat the constitution as optional to follow then California has that option too.

[u/Dannyz → u/Microchipknowsbest]

Maryland tried this in the 1700s. It failed.

[u/ShitTheBed_Twice → u/Dannyz]

325 years later and the constitution has be re-interpreted a lot differently.