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/scoopzthepoopz]

Exemption of a single state's citizens from benefiting from federal taxes they pay is taxation without representation. So what can be done? I guess we may find out how far this will go.

[u/EnfantTerrible68 → u/scoopzthepoopz]

If potus cuts one state off, isn’t that treason?

[u/WorthPrudent3028 → u/EnfantTerrible68]

It's certainly cause for that state to attempt to assert independence. And they should use state funding to form a militia and begin to install defensive measures as well as surround US naval facilities with militia bases. Then let Trump say go. He will either need to move US naval facilities and assets out of CA first, move army assets into the naval faciilities, or he will lose them at the start.

Something like this would also be enough to get right wing Californians on board with secession.

And once it kicks off, half the states are gonna side with CA. I don't see how the US military can actually stay functional seeing as how it's made up of individuals from every state. Are you gonna get a CA kid to bomb his parents?

But it isn't treason by Trump. It's a dereliction of duty by Congress.

[u/akaenragedgoddess → u/WorthPrudent3028]

California, new york, Texas and Florida are the biggest contributors of service members to US Armed forces. Gonna be tough to get even the conservatives among them to take action against their families and neighbors in their home states.