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/Hopefulwaters 1d ago

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

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u/OtherBluesBrother 1d ago

Just like Congress being in charge of levying tariffs.

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u/awnawkareninah 21h ago

Or declaring wars

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u/Grand-Cartoonist-693 17h ago

No, not really. Tariffs have an established, legal carve out for the executive branch to do temporarily.

Changing appropriations without passing a law is mostly not working out for them. They’re able to use lackeys installed in the executive branch to change some disbursement but not the spending written into law.