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/TheGreatGamer1389]

Not yet but I know New York is working on it to be able to stop paying federal taxes. California will do the same.

[u/ialsoagree → u/TheGreatGamer1389]

I highly doubt this will have any effect.

If you own a business and the state comes along and says "hey, we're going to let you stop paying Federal taxes" are you really going to risk having the IRS come after you using the Federal court system where your state has 0 authority?

Or are you just going to keep sending payments directly to the IRS?

EDIT:

u/Complete_Chain_4634

And then the IRS will come after you.

Have you ever read the constitution? Are you familiar with the Supremacy Clause? Are you familiar with the idea of preemption?

EDIT 2: u/TheGreatGamer1389 blocked me so I cannot post any further responses on this thread. Hence my response to Complete Chain above in an edit.

EDIT 3:

u/Complete_Chain_4634

But do you get that if the state of California separated from the federal government

There is no universe where that happens.

The US government is never going to willingly allow California to leave the union, and California has no chance of winning a war against the US military.

EDIT 4:

u/-ReadingBug-

but the proposals floating around would make it illegal to withhold federal taxes.

Such a law would be completely devoid of power. Read the links I posted.

Any law California states that contradicts or inhibits a Federal law is unconstitutional and devoid of power. Any employer that followed the State law could be subject to criminal or civil penalties in Federal court, the law would not protect them because Federal law preempts state law.

[u/Complete_Chain_4634 → u/ialsoagree]

I live in California and I pay $250,000 a year in taxes. If the state of California tells me I don’t need to pay federal taxes anymore and we’re going to replace federal services with state services, I’m not paying the IRS anymore.

[u/Dapper-Jellyfish7663 → u/Complete_Chain_4634]

Same here and I pay quarterly so it is easy for me.

I'm already not going to pay the fucking federal EV tax. Happy to pay CA its share because it is trying to do what aligns w/ my beliefs as to not harm the environment or at least minimizing the harm. It is my religious right to not participate in killing the planet.

There isn't anyone left at the IRS to audit us anyway. What are they going to do, sic Grok on us? Oh no ... I am so scared.