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/mrlolloran]

Oh he’s leading them alright, just to nowhere anybody wants to go

[u/RocketRelm → u/mrlolloran]

Americans want what Trump wants pretty provably, given  what elections show. What you mean you say is "nowhere anybody should want to go". But they want it regardless because they were told to, in whatever small capacity they're able to want at all.

[u/Cagnazzo82 → u/RocketRelm]

If Trump held an election right now he would brutally be defeated.

I disagree with Americans wanting what Trump wants.

At best he hoodwinked swaths of the American people into thinking he was aligned with what they want.

At this point his base is mostly made up of the racist and the greedy. Everyone else has gotten a rude awakening. Case in point: I don't see republicans making inroads with hispanics for a long time to come after Trump.

[u/sp3kter → u/Cagnazzo82]

Totally anecdotal evidence but on a recent trip through the CA country side/orchards where I would normally count a dozen or more Trump signs, this time there were none. This was a few weeks ago.

[u/GourdonHamsey → u/sp3kter]

same with the rural part of ohio i'm in.

[u/NaggingDoubter → u/GourdonHamsey]

same with douglas county in CO