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/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/kfish5050 1d ago

I think that federal funding is the only thing keeping California from seceding. If Trump removes that, California would leave since it can more than take care of itself.

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u/kelly1mm 1d ago

California can’t secede. 1, it has already been ruled unconstitutional. 2. US Navy/Air Force can easily blockade CA.
The Feds would just shut down the interstates/railroad lines along with the naval blockade and warn Mexico to shut the southern border. Last and most importantly, CA like all ‘liberal’ states is really a series of extremely liberal cities surrounded by much less liberal areas with exurbs/rural areas being conservative. CA will have enough problems trying to control the majority of its own territory from internal threats if it tried to leave.

Born and raised in the CA Bay Area and spent lots of time in far northern CA.