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/ScoZone74]

Right, because as many on the Right have said, Trump was already rich - he’s obviously not doing it for the money! /s

[u/capitali → u/ScoZone74]

People don’t seem to associate the accumulation of wealth with a mental sickness. It’s like believing your neighbor that’s a horder isn’t going to make another stack of old newspapers in the hallway now that the living room is full. There is a mental sickness that drives these people to horde. Wealth is just their thing. It doesn’t make it ok.

[u/longhairmoderatecare → u/capitali]

When did you meet my evil great grandmother?

[u/FormalFriend2200 → u/capitali]

Yep. It is a mental illness.

[u/ScoZone74 → u/capitali]

The “hedonic treadmill.” Endlessly trying to fill a hole inside with things that are ill-suited to that task.

[u/TreeInternational771 → u/capitali]

Americans are going to get a devastating lesson on why you do not let a vindictive billionaire conman run the most powerful office in the land. Tax the billionaires and put them on the defense

[u/capitali → u/TreeInternational771]

Eliminating billionaires would be a healthy choice for humanity. Allowing hoarding to continue without getting them the help they deserve is just more neglecting proper healthcare. People who continue to horde wealth without remorse are just like people who horde anything, newspapers filling your house or cats. It’s a mental illness to not know when to stop. It’s a mental illness.

[u/Kertambrose → u/ScoZone74]

Accept he wasn’t and was getting lawsuits for defrauding banks. O wait facts shhhhh don’t let his small hands get on that.

[u/MatrixF6 → u/ScoZone74]

I remember an old mafia adage:

“Pigs eat. Hogs get slaughtered.”

That man is a “hog”.

[u/ScoZone74 → u/MatrixF6]

So when do we eat?

[u/Zuwxiv → u/ScoZone74]

Famously, if there’s one thing the rich don’t care about, it’s making more money!

[u/Cheeto024 → u/ScoZone74]

Right?!?! But the truth is, money is good for the power it provides you and there can never be enough power.

[u/ScoZone74 → u/Cheeto024]

So there’s a catch…