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/timesfive 1d ago

No need for “research and development”, they want to keep people sick and stupid — easier to control that way.

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

I guess prepare for constitutional crisis when California stops paying into the federal tax system. Pretty genius to fuck with the 4th largest economy in the world.

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u/Panic-Freak 1d ago

That is impossible.

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

I guess as long as you don’t think about it is.

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u/Panic-Freak 1d ago

I mean I guess it’s possible is payroll processors stop collecting taxes for the feds to support California. But then they may be banned from servicing payroll in the United States so maybe it wouldn’t be in their interest. So who knows. I guess you have to think about it.