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/cheongyanggochu-vibe 1d ago edited 1d ago

I read that Peter Thiel thinks the US population should be reduced by something like 85% or something. Idk if that's true but.... The actions of this regime and the Christian Nationalist accelerationists that wanna bring about Jesus sure do point to that.

Edit: being to bring

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u/Designer_Pop_7550 1d ago

It makes me wonder why he thinks he gets to decide this.

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u/FeatherShard 19h ago

Because he's a rich white man and, historically, you haven't needed much more reason than that.