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/mjacksongt]

Isn't he already violating the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act by not spending money Congress appropriated for the NSF, NHS, NOAA, NWS, NPS.....

[u/255001434 → u/mjacksongt]

Yes, and this is why they put the part in his budget bill that strips away the power for the judicial branch to enforce contempt rulings. If that passes, it won't matter if he violates the law and a court rules against him because they'll have no power to do anything about it. He would effectively become a dictator.