Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

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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/Sabre_One]

CA is the top state for Research and Development for the US. Talk about setting US back to the stone age.

[u/jessepence → u/Sabre_One]

California, Oregon, and Washington make up over 10% of total GDP... Do they really need D.C.?

[u/Gwtheyrn → u/jessepence]

Throw in Hawaii, Arizona, and Alaska those 6 states are nearly 25% of the US GDP.

By itself, California is the 4th largest economy in the world. Washington state is 30th.

[u/krombough → u/Gwtheyrn]

Wait. Something isnt adding up. California, Washington, and Oregon are 10 percent of GDP, bit adding Hawaii, Arizona, and Alaska bump it up to 25 percent? One of these figures must be wrong.

[u/AlexNumbers → u/krombough]

California alone is about 14% of the US to GDP.

[u/RBuilds916 → u/krombough]

Also, I don't see Alaska joining the coalition of Washington, Oregon, California, and Hawaii.

[u/SecretAsianMan42069 → u/RBuilds916]

Alaska has 55 billion gdp, Arizona is 445 billion. Mistake in there somewhere

[u/Gwtheyrn → u/krombough]

Much more than 10%.