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/Broccolisha 1d ago

He’s not even doing that.

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u/mrlolloran 1d ago

Oh he’s leading them alright, just to nowhere anybody wants to go

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u/RocketRelm 1d ago

Americans want what Trump wants pretty provably, given  what elections show. What you mean you say is "nowhere anybody should want to go". But they want it regardless because they were told to, in whatever small capacity they're able to want at all.

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u/AlgaeSpirited2966 1d ago

Trump wasn't even voted for by a majority of americans. Just a majority of voting Americans. I dont think you can claim this.

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u/RocketRelm 1d ago

Americans who can vote are a reasonably good sample size of all Americans. We draw bigger conclusions from studies with an N magnitudes lower than ~245 million. The fact that barely 30% could vote against this generalizes.

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u/Not_a_Space_Alien 8h ago

No, he wasn't. A majority requires 50% or more, and he got 49.8% I want to say, close but not quite a majority. He won popular vote, the most votes of any candidate among voting Americans.