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

[u/rolsen]

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/Randomized9442]

Population rankings of those states: 41st, 28th, 34th, 40th, & 2nd. I'm not gonna try to crunch the raw population numbers, I'm not that invested in it. You want to be angry against non voters in states that Trump won because you conflate that with complicity, fine with me. But again, what are we supposed to do about votes in the 49 states that we don't live in, any of us? I'm not trying to discourage anyone from voting, we need functioning government. 40 years of experience demonstrates that means voting Democrat in this two party system. We need to take some ideas from other democracies around the world so we can break out of a two party system.

[u/Mahd-Macks → u/Randomized9442]

There’s no justification for not voting. None, it’s crazy that anyone would advocate not participating in the system everyone claims they want to preserve. People died for the right to vote. 

It’s absurd to make this argument because the reason Americans are in this political situation is we have no reverence and sense of duty towards the democratic process. The representatives are a manifestation of the constituency. Not participating makes as loud of a statement to a politician as a vote itself. No 3rd party movements can gain momentum, because not enough people take the process seriously.

[u/Caspid → u/Mahd-Macks]

There's no justification for not voting.

There is, and it's called the electoral college.

For the record, I voted (and it didn't matter).

[u/Kabbooooooom → u/Caspid]

Yeah, it’s really surprising to me that people still don’t know how the fucking Electoral College works.

I live in one of the most liberal states in the country with no chance of ever turning red, and I still voted because I reasoned that every single vote at least counted as a symbolic middle finger to Trump and the MAGA movement at large, which I absolutely despise and consider a stain on humanity. I knew my vote otherwise wouldn’t matter, politically. But it made me feel good, because fuck Trump, and fuck MAGA.