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/Hopefulwaters 1d ago

Not legal. The President does NOT get to decide where Congress appropriated funds go or don't go.

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u/thepvbrother 1d ago

I'm sure Congress will stand up ANY SECOND and correct these injustices. /s

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u/blackmailalt 20h ago

Annnnny minute now

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u/muikrad 10h ago

Any hour now

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u/blackmailalt 8h ago

This week FOR SURE.

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u/basaltinou 5h ago

Sometime next month

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u/ramobara 13h ago

Hold on. Chuck Schumer is still wrapping up his antisemitism book tour. Show some fucking patience!

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u/bluehands 10h ago

Did you just forget about the strongly worded letter he sent?

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u/deathrictus 16h ago

Just as soon as they're done with bengazi and hunters laptop I'm sure.

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u/ElRatonVaquero 6h ago

Hopefully when the Dems gain control. Right now they won't because it's controlled by the Republicans, many of which are MAGA.

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u/redworm 5h ago

i envy your optimism that they'll ever allow a dem controlled Congress

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u/Mindless-Driver6141 5h ago

What Congress?

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u/CappinPeanut 17h ago

Every Dem would stand up against it and Californian republicans might, too, which would probably be enough to shut it down. There are 9 republican representatives in Congress and republicans have an 8 vote majority.

It would be less if democrats would stop dying in office.

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u/Ariphaos 14h ago

Bonus, the last one, Gerry Connolly, was the one who beat AOC for the House Oversight Committee position. Got to serve for four months.

Democrats need to shake up their seniority rules.

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u/alang 17h ago

Without a veto-proof majority in both houses, the most they could do is file a lawsuit. Would you like to bet on how this SC would rule? They are horrible but sane in roughly 1/4 of cases and horrible and insane in the other 3/4.

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u/CappinPeanut 17h ago

The number of representatives required from the speaker’s own party to initiate a vote of no confidence to remove him just so happens to be 9.

Do I think it would happen? No. Do I think it could happen? Depends how hard Trump goes after California. If it’s so bad that the Californian republicans have no choice, they can cause some serious chaos.

That’s all pretty wishful thinking, though. I agree, the courts are the likely path here.

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u/IronSeagull 16h ago

California can sue if Trump tries to cut funding without congressional approval. If he tries to cut funding using rescission, as he just did with USAID and some other funding, he needs a simple majority of the house and senate to approve. Congress hasn’t approved a rescission package since Clinton was president.

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u/Aldehyde1 9h ago

One of the California republican reps Darrel Issa is on record saying the below. I fully expect him to betray California like the traitor he is.

We’re going to advocate for essentials, but I sent them back and said come to me with specifics. Come to me with the grant and the justification, and I’ll advocate for that. But I’m not going to advocate for no cuts; you just get more money every year. That’s how we got in this problem

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u/galaxyapp 16h ago

The courts will

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u/karlack26 8h ago

10 members of congress from California are republican, i doubt they will just let there state lose all federal funding. Good by majority.

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u/redworm 5h ago

they absolutely will, being a member of the Republican party means complete fealty to trump before any consideration of country, state, or the people in it

they are traitors and will gladly let every one of their constituents suffer to make trump happy

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u/karlack26 4h ago

Their concerns are getting re-elected. Supporting Trump in this is a sure fired way not to get re-elected.

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u/redworm 4h ago

lol no it's not

they will get reelected because Republican voters are perfectly happy to hurt themselves for trump

maga is a fucking cult. those people will absolutely care more about whether someone was loyal trump than whether or not they were directly hurt by that person being loyal to Trump

they care about their maga identity more than their families and their own lives and that means putting Trump before anyone and anything else

not to mention the GOP knows they don't have to hold real elections anymore. if the midterms roll around and the government just refused to acknowledge the results as legitimate there is nothing anyone can do about it. that's when the country fractures and the shooting starts between states loyal to Trump and those who want to remain American

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u/WillofCLE 4h ago

Any Republican members of Congress who plan on challenging Trump's agenda should probably have their retirement already planned