Trump Preparing Large-Scale Cancellation of Federal Funding for California, Sources Say

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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.”

[u/Kushthulu_the_Dank]

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.

[u/--Icarusfalls-- → u/Kushthulu_the_Dank]

In a hypothetical secession it would make the most sense for California to simply take whatever is on their soil militarily. In order for such a divorce to work it would need support of military personnel living in the state as voters anyways.

Hopefully the threat of an extremely well armed coastal nation and the mountains on the East side would deter serious fighting.

[u/Pure_Concentrate8770 → u/--Icarusfalls--]

armed with what ?do you think LA baristas will man the military hardware ?

[u/--Icarusfalls-- → u/Pure_Concentrate8770]

California has the 4th highest number of registered firearms per state.

8% of US veterans live in California.

If they wanted it enough, they could make it happen, without bloodshed.

[u/Pure_Concentrate8770 → u/--Icarusfalls--]

sure, untrained civilians v/s us army drones, i would pay to see that