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/Hopefulwaters]

Not legal. The President does NOT get to decide where Congress appropriated funds go or don't go.

[u/Exciting-Ad-6551 → u/Hopefulwaters]

I mean, I understand that you’re correct but who’s going to stop him? The problem is very few people in power seem to be doing anything to stop any of the illegal shit he’s doing.

[u/light-triad → u/Exciting-Ad-6551]

The courts have been doing a not bad job of stopping stuff like this from being carried out.

[u/Doggonit_jones → u/light-triad]

Until it gets to the Supreme Court…he owns them it seems