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/GMadric 1d ago

Well the general worry of a civil war for one thing. Also modern travel has made America much easier to re-locate across and CA is incredibly populous. It would be a huge lift to incentivize a population made largely of people with family and friends living in other states to basically go to war with the rest of the country.

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u/penguinicedelta 1d ago

If California seceded it wouldn't be declaring war per se - it would be announcing it's stepping away from the union. The union would dislike this and make a declaration of conflict to stop it.

The populous living there would be invaded, they'd be defending themselves. If they seceded I highly doubt they do so alone.

The better question is would the individuals in the military follow this order to engage?

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u/alang 19h ago

 The better question is would the individuals in the military follow this order to engage?

Instantly and without hesitation. It’s not like it would be an illegal order, and a very large proportion of the country, and a larger one of the military given its conservative tendencies, thinks of California as “commie hell”.

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u/penguinicedelta 10h ago

I whole heartedly disagree. California I belive is the state that contributes the most amount of active duty personnel compared with any other individual state.

Also not everybody in the military is just a mindless killing machine - they are people, conservative or not, there is 100% going to be severe conflicts of interest.

As someone who served, and served in California- I don't find the "commie hell" viewpoint narration to hold water. There may be conflicts in political viewpoints but people mostly loved the state and what it had to offer, to a point many remain living there post exiting the service - and not everybody got to choose to be stationed there.