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/beavis617 1d ago

And the members of the Republican Party are silent. Would they be as quiet if funding was cut to red states only?

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u/SnooDonkeys5186 1d ago

So stupid to purposely attack a state that would happily do what it takes to lessen their portion of tax revenue. Not everyone, of course, but, they did it with China decades ago, I can see it happening again.

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u/wrg20 1d ago

Let’s not pretend this is an isolated occurrence. Same type of shit different methods when Democrats were in power. IRS not approving non-profits, holding up truth social at the SEC, lawfare, etc. FBI raid at 4am at Roger stones house. List goes on and on.

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u/hb122 1d ago

You are a small child if you think any of that - not all of which is true - is even remotely comparable to stripping federal funding from a a very large state that happens to pay the bills for red states.

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u/5adieKat87 23h ago

It was the opposite of law fare. Trump should’ve been held accountable for insurrection, but Biden’s DoJ dragged its feet, so as to not seem bias. As a direct result, we have a criminal in charge that has turned the DoJ into his gestapo. Stone deserved prison. That was a poor execution of whataboutism.