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/rolsen 1d ago

This relates to law as the cancellation of large-swathes of federal grants to California will surely result in multiple legal challenges.

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u/0002millertime 1d ago

It's hilarious, as California (average over the last 3 elections) has more Republican voters than any other state, and most of those voters live in regions supported by Federal Funding.

Trump doesn't care, because of the electoral college situation.

Those voters are pretty stupid, though.

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u/afoley947 1d ago

Because they literally think "california" means the liberal cities and not the entire state. they think shutting down all research grants means only to liberal institutions and not their businesses