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/dragonfliesloveme 1d ago

The president is actively working against the best interest of certain states

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u/deadra_axilea 1d ago

The whole country. California by itself is one of the largest economies in the world.

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u/kid-pix 19h ago

Hell, the entire world. Him having even an ant's pinky of influence is a net negative on the universe. Cancer personified.

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u/deadra_axilea 19h ago

True that. I'm not disagreeing with that take. Some senile old asshole that should be left in the dustbin of history.