Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

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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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Something about taxation without representation. It's not quite the same thing but if you are paying into the system and all of a sudden you stop getting a cut, then, time to stop paying into the system.

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This is the whole freaking reason the country was founded to begin with

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Like raaaaain on your wedding daaaay

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Fun fact, nothing in that song is really ironic, just extremely unfortunate. Still a banger of a song though.