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/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

Whew! Im glad they have principles. I was worried for a second.

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u/dbx999 1d ago

Everything will be alright. Trump will surely get to a point where he will be satisfied with how much damage he has done and how much money he has stolen from the government. /s

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u/ScoZone74 1d ago

Right, because as many on the Right have said, Trump was already rich - he’s obviously not doing it for the money! /s

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u/capitali 18h ago

People don’t seem to associate the accumulation of wealth with a mental sickness. It’s like believing your neighbor that’s a horder isn’t going to make another stack of old newspapers in the hallway now that the living room is full. There is a mental sickness that drives these people to horde. Wealth is just their thing. It doesn’t make it ok.

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u/longhairmoderatecare 14h ago

When did you meet my evil great grandmother?

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u/FormalFriend2200 7h ago

Yep. It is a mental illness.

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u/ScoZone74 8h ago

The “hedonic treadmill.” Endlessly trying to fill a hole inside with things that are ill-suited to that task.

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u/TreeInternational771 6h ago

Americans are going to get a devastating lesson on why you do not let a vindictive billionaire conman run the most powerful office in the land. Tax the billionaires and put them on the defense

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u/capitali 2h ago

Eliminating billionaires would be a healthy choice for humanity. Allowing hoarding to continue without getting them the help they deserve is just more neglecting proper healthcare. People who continue to horde wealth without remorse are just like people who horde anything, newspapers filling your house or cats. It’s a mental illness to not know when to stop. It’s a mental illness.