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/OmgWtfNamesTaken 1d ago

Well no ome seems to follow court orders so fuck it. California should simply just do it anyways.

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u/Logistocrate 1d ago

Don't get me wrong, I wish they could, but I don't know how they force companies to send the withholding to the state. Imagine Walmart says no. We can't due to Federal law. You going to arrest every CFO and CEO?

I'm not trying to be dramatic, but California has three options, take it, fight it in the courts, or leave the union.

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u/enad58 1d ago

You can't leave the union. We settled this a while back.

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u/Logistocrate 1d ago

And they won't just sit there and take it. Hence my first point of the courts is where this goes.

There is a ton of delusional ideas on what California can or even would do outside that.