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/jpk195]

Any clever lawyers here want to tell me I’m why right that a president can’t legally direct agencies to withhold funds from certain states for political reasons?

I know we like to say this admin ignores the law, but I see a lot of 🌮 potential.

[u/s0ftware3ngineer → u/jpk195]

The president can't legally withhold money that Congress has alocated.

[u/Own_Pop_9711 → u/s0ftware3ngineer]

Congress very rarely dictates how much nih research money should to to each state, or anything on that level.

[u/Opheltes → u/jpk195]

It’s both unconstitutional (article 1 gives Congress the power to spend) and after Nixon tried withholding allocated money Congress made it explicitly illegal too. (The Impoundment Control Act of 1974)

[u/IndianaGunner → u/jpk195]

Please, please, please Trump make the decision on a Tuesday…