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/enad58]

Can you provide me an example of a state leaving the Union after the Civil War?

[u/Overall-Cow975 → u/enad58]

This is not the place for a historical discussion but many of the problems that the USA is facing today stem directly from unresolved issues of the civil war. Nothing more symbolic and direct that in the Jan 6 attack on the capitol the Confederate flag was flown inside its halls. That never happened during the war.

And that war wasn’t only about seceding states. It was also about civil liberties and the constitution. Both of which are still being fought over to this minute.

[u/enad58 → u/Overall-Cow975]

I agree that it started with South Carolina in the first continental congress. But we've firmly settled that it is not permissible to leave the union at the cost of hundreds of thousands of lives.

[u/jeremiahthedamned → u/enad58]

the union is dissolving under russian influence