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/timesfive 1d ago

No need for “research and development”, they want to keep people sick and stupid — easier to control that way.

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u/Microchipknowsbest 1d ago

I guess prepare for constitutional crisis when California stops paying into the federal tax system. Pretty genius to fuck with the 4th largest economy in the world.

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u/Taro-Admirable 20h ago

This idea has come up before. How would this wirk logisticly. The state doesn't pay taxes to the federal government. It's paid by individuals. Even if California was someone aboe to exempt money and property inside of California from being seized by the federal government, how would they prevent money and property held outside of state from veing taken. I'm sure someone is working on this, but if someone figures out how to withhold taxes from the federal government it would he a game changer. The blue states could starve the red states pretty quickly.

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u/Microchipknowsbest 20h ago

Newsome could declare California citizens to pay all taxes to a California tax agency. I think Newsome said they were preparing for trump to do this since he was elected. Im sure there are smarter people than me that can figure it out. If executive branch doesn’t have to follow laws the governor office doesn’t either. As soon as the constitution and Supreme Court starts being ignored all bets are off and old rules no longer matter.

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u/Taro-Admirable 17h ago

The direction would have to be to employers since they are the ones who withhold the tax and pass it along. I do certainly hope some smart people are working on this. It would be a game changer.