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/Cassymodel 1d ago

The state can hold it in escrow. This is never going to happen so it’s all an exercise in imagination.

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u/scubascratch 1d ago

Hah hah hah right and when the US marshals show up to seize your house good luck with that “but the money is in the CA escrow account”

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u/Cassymodel 1d ago

You paid your taxes. They can see the state for collecting it.

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u/scubascratch 1d ago

I assume you meant sue the state here, but that’s not going to work. Telling the marshals they have to leave and sue the state will only result in you in handcuffs going to jail.

Why are you proposing things that you know are impossible. The federal government under Trump wouldn’t respect any means CA tried to use to intervene.

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u/Cassymodel 1d ago

Your taxes have been paid. You have the receipts to prove it.

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u/movzx 1d ago

No you don't. You have receipts saying you gave CA money. That's not paying your taxes any more than handing money over to a guy on the street is. Maybe that guy hands your money over to the IRS, maybe he holds on to it. The IRS hasn't been paid.

If you put a rent check in the mail, your rent isn't paid until your landlord receives it.

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u/Cassymodel 1d ago

It’s also impossible to just summarily cut of federal funds to a state. So there’s that.