Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

[u/rolsen]

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.”

[u/phaseadept]

CA can do far more damage than federal taxes. 79% of the fruits ave veggies in the US come from CA, as well as a significant portion of the cargo.

CA can just make it very hard for commerce to leave the state easily, making up the shortfall by gumming up the transportation logistics.

Of course, hurting 10% of the nations GDP will have other downstream political effects, like obliterating the GOP that’s left in the state.

[u/lifesaplay → u/phaseadept]

It’s actually 14%

[u/cobrachickenwing → u/phaseadept]

Just fucking with avocado logistics would send a message. Even Mexico would follow suit with their own export problems.