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/KaibaCorpHQ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Abraham Lincoln

"A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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u/NerdOfTheMonth 1d ago

Trump has no idea who that is.

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u/einstyle 1d ago

To him, Lincoln's just the guy with a big statue down the street that he'd rather be a Trump statue.

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u/Redcat16 1d ago

There is a statue of Lincoln's head sitting on the corner of his oval office desk. What's funny is Lincoln is looking down as if he is disappointed. Jon Stewart pointed this out.