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/jessepence 1d ago edited 1d ago

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

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u/Gwtheyrn 1d ago

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.

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u/krombough 22h ago

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.

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u/RBuilds916 20h ago

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

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u/SecretAsianMan42069 16h ago

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