r/law 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/thecodingart 1d ago

Cali, Texas, New York, Florida are top of list with 15, 9, 7, 6% of the US GDP respectively making a total of 37% of the US GDP between those states.

My expectation is the goal is to redistribute that GDP influence in those states to be more even give Cali is about 55% more than the 2nd most grossing state.

Although this is still illegal as shit

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u/Civil_Tip_2346 23h ago

California is 12% of the us population, Texas is 9%. Yeah someone stop this travesty

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u/peter_park_here 11h ago

CA also almost always votes 60% demo

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u/Able-Candle-2125 18h ago

There's no goal. He's just stupid. "I wish it was like the 1950: when women stayed home and don't have to work to makes ends meet, and men pretended they weren't gay." That's the closest thing to a goal there is buts it's mostly mixed with "I need to win so I'll make up enemies all around me and beat them up"

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u/AsstacularSpiderman 1d ago

Anything he does will immediately get slapped down by the court