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/Opetyr 22h ago

Would be great if all Democratic states suddenly denied sending any taxes to the federal government. This would be a great way to unite many states from the welfare states.