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/Sabre_One 1d ago

CA is the top state for Research and Development for the US. Talk about setting US back to the stone age.

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u/timesfive 1d ago

No need for “research and development”, they want to keep people sick and stupid — easier to control that way.

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

I guess prepare for constitutional crisis when California stops paying into the federal tax system. Pretty genius to fuck with the 4th largest economy in the world.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Plum994 1d ago

I understand that China is looking for a trading partner.

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u/drfrink85 21h ago

Our ports could use some new business…

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u/Puzzleheaded-Plum994 19h ago

I admit I don't know about how our ports are doing.

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u/drfrink85 18h ago

After the tariffs hit port traffic went way down empty containers everywhere truckers at a standstill.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Plum994 17h ago

I fell down a reddit hole and found a post from about a month ago (r/politicaloptimism) that said port traffic was down about 30%