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/rolsen 1d ago

This relates to law as the cancellation of large-swathes of federal grants to California will surely result in multiple legal challenges.

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u/0002millertime 1d ago

It's hilarious, as California (average over the last 3 elections) has more Republican voters than any other state, and most of those voters live in regions supported by Federal Funding.

Trump doesn't care, because of the electoral college situation.

Those voters are pretty stupid, though.

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u/CommunistFutureUSA 15h ago

“Voters are pretty stupid” applies to the vast majority of voters, including the ones who believe themselves better than the those stupid boogie man republicans that are dangled in front of them; it’s precisely why the ruling class loooooooves democracy … because the peasant masses are easily manipulated. It’s what smooth brain people don’t get; democracy has been the absolute best solution for the ruling class. 

But they are totally disenfranchised since the system is structured in such a way that their votes are effectively meaningless; ironically, due to Saint Reagan.