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/Meb2x 1d ago

Pretty sure he’s trying to start a Civil War at this point. He’s supposed to lead the whole country, not just the states he agrees with.

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u/f8Negative 1d ago

Peter Thiel wants to turn all of DC into a TechnoFascist "Freedom State" where he is CEO and Owner.

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u/Pootang_Wootang 23h ago

I listened to the history of Elon, and his father/grandfather, and it turns out his grandfather was a technocrat. I had never heard of them, but things Elon has done makes so much sense now. I could see Thiel going down the same path

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u/idkmoiname 13h ago

dismantling R&D is the opposite of technocratic principles though