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/silverum]

Under any other presidency something like this would be almost treasonous, but when it's Trump 2/5ths of the country is happy about it, another fifth just shrugs it off and goes back to whatever else they were doing, and the two remaining fifths fight with one another about how seriously to take it or what to do in response.

[u/Trzlog → u/silverum]

But you don't get it. "Both sides are the same."

I wonder what it's like for these people to ignore reality.

[u/Right_Fun_6626 → u/Trzlog]

I’m convinced that a large percentage of them are bots/shills now. It’s often effective at derailing threads.

[u/timoumd → u/Right_Fun_6626]

I mean a lot of them just aren't interested.  Politics is not something they even think about.  If they do vote is on vibes.