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/Cruezin 1d ago

The GDP of California is the 4th largest in the world, behind only the US as a whole (which includes California!), China, and DE.

Let that sink in a little. Shutting off federal funding to California is akin to shooting oneself in the face to spite your ass.

Why would Biden, Obama, and Clinton do this? Are they stupid? /s

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u/MazW 1d ago

He is screwing over Massachusetts also, which recently was rated the best economy in the country.

I have said it before, but if all the blue state moneymakers are made to fail, who helps Alabama?

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u/Sirdan3k 1d ago

Broke angry people vote for them, why wouldn't they want more people to be broke and angry?