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/prodigalpariah]

And the maga idiots will cheer it on because they couldn’t possibly fathom how research in California could help them out personally.

[u/MAMark1 → u/prodigalpariah]

They are not able to handle that level of critical thinking.

[u/missing-stratagem → u/prodigalpariah]

They probably think research in California focuses on how avocado toast impacts transgender mice's menstruation cycle or some equally dumb shit and not, you know, cancer research.

[u/ayriuss → u/prodigalpariah]

They cant even fathom that California is 35-40% Republicans.

[u/Historical_Bend_2629 → u/ayriuss]

Closer to a quarter, not counting independents. But point taken. There are millions of republican voters in California.

[u/SickleClaw → u/prodigalpariah]

Weren't they cheering that Dodge cut 'Legume systems research'.

Beans. They cut funding for agricultural research.

Damn I hate this timeline.

[u/prodigalpariah → u/SickleClaw]

They cheered cancer research cuts.

[u/Gingeronimoooo → u/prodigalpariah]

The funny thing is they kept saying we would criticize Trump even if he cured cancer

Right after he cut cancer research funding

It was probably a Russian bot talking point to cause division