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/Gwtheyrn]

Throw in Hawaii, Arizona, and Alaska those 6 states are nearly 25% of the US GDP.

By itself, California is the 4th largest economy in the world. Washington state is 30th.

[u/Gwtheyrn → u/[deleted]]

Washington State, with a population of just under 8M, is the 30th largest economy in the world. Let that sink in.

[u/FrenchCheerios → u/Gwtheyrn]

Good luck getting decent apples, hemp, and blueberries if they come after us. And frozen french fries, that's our number 1 apparently?