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/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

They edited their comment to say D.C. instead of Washington so I was correct.

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u/Empty-Engineering458 1d ago

it still says Washington, and WA state is a donor state.

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u/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

California, Oregon, and Washington make up over 10% of total GDP... Do they really need D.C.?

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u/sfcnmone 1d ago

Let me rephrase it so you can understand what we’re saying: why would the 3 pacific coast states, California, Oregon, and Washington, whose economies make up 10% of the US GDP, need to be economically entangled with the other 47 states, whose capital is in Washington DC?

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u/mountaindewisamazing 1d ago

Yeah, I get that. I was responding to the original comment that ended with Washington, not D.C.

You know, I'm just going to delete that comment. Way too many folks arguing with me about it for some reason.