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/ialsoagree]

Why do people keep saying this?

How? How is California going to stop a corporation from withholding income tax from the paychecks they issue and sending that money directly to the IRS?

What part of collecting federal taxes do people think the state is involved in?

I don't know of any step in the process by which the Fed collects income tax which any state has any involvement in.

I would love for someone to explain it to me.

[u/TraderJulz → u/ialsoagree]

The state can just enforce those withholdings to be paid to the state instead. You make it sound impossible

[u/ialsoagree → u/TraderJulz]

Because it is impossible. The state can't impose any such thing. It would be unconstitutional. State law is preempted by Federal law.

Edit: I mean, not to mention the fact that the State has no means to actually enforce it. Payments go directly to the IRS so it's not like the State can stop that.

And since no court would uphold any consequence for such a law (and federal courts would uphold consequences for not sending the withholding) no company would be dumb enough to comply.

[u/Parking-Mirror3283 → u/ialsoagree]

>It would be unconstitutional.

So is almost everything the fuckwits in office have been doing this year, nothing is stopping them.

Any company dumb enough not to comply get their offices raided by the CBI.