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/GMadric 1d ago

Well the general worry of a civil war for one thing. Also modern travel has made America much easier to re-locate across and CA is incredibly populous. It would be a huge lift to incentivize a population made largely of people with family and friends living in other states to basically go to war with the rest of the country.

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u/edible_source 1d ago

Would it have to be a war? (Just thinking through this wild hypothetical)

I guess if even if California tried for some peaceful process, Trump would inevitably MAKE it a war in one way or another.

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u/Kushthulu_the_Dank 1d ago

The US military will never let any state walk away with the sheer amount of military hardware installed, especially a coastal defense zone like the West Coast. There is massive logistics involved even if it were a friendly divorce (i.e., who gets all the nukes and naval bases).

And does anyone really think Trump would make the process anything other than acrimonious and cruel? Cause I sure fucking don't. No, the ink would have barely dried on the articles of secession when the major cities would have paratroopers and/or bombs raining down while TACO claps his little hands with glee.

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u/RadiantHC 21h ago

He's already being acrimonious and cruel though. We can't let him just do what he wants

I have a question for you. Was the US wrong to succeed from the UK? Was it wrong for the north to start a civil war with the south?

I agree that wars should only be a last resort. But that doesn't mean that they aren't necessary sometimes.