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The Trump administration is preparing to cancel a large swath of federal funding for California, an effort that could begin as soon as Friday, according to multiple sources.

Agencies are being told to start identifying grants the administration can withhold from California. Sources said the administration is specifically considering a full termination of federal grant funding for the University of California and California State University systems.

Singling out one state for massive cuts would be an unusual move, but Donald Trump has long made Democratic-led California a target.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 12 minutes ago

How about California cancelling paying federal taxes in turn? This would probably lead to a big loss for the federal budget, wouldn't it?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

The federal government has irrevocably been compromised, US states need to be able to leave it. Preferably like the UK left the EU, without a civil war. It's only going to get worse, and reform is no longer possible, as too many branches have been compromised and midterms are likely to be compromised by Agent Kraskov and friends. As much as the Trump-Musk sideshow feud keeps going, it's not doing much and is not likely to do much to stop Trump.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago

the only people who want California to secede are tech freaks that want to establish a monarchy and see this as an opportunity to do that

[-] [email protected] 2 points 17 minutes ago

Idk, im a lefty who would love to see Cascadia

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

If you build the dome in silicone valley, John Galt will appear beneath it and bless the Mars sperm ark.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago
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[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 hours ago

California should cancel state funding for the federal government.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 7 hours ago

if state funding is being canceled, that state should leave the union. why be apart of the united states government if trump is dismantling and destroying the united states government.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 5 hours ago

The American thing to do is fight for America.

The people who want California to just leave are the ones who want to dismantle the country.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I’m Californian. The federal government, for my entire life, has just taken and taken and taken from me. I have received nothing in return. I don’t need your shitty union of thugs and mouth breathers, and I don’t need your bullshit military colonizing waste of time and money.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

Well you probably don't realize the things the federal government does give cali. Interstate highways are one. Coast guard. Bridges. And clearly funding to the universities. Now the balance is lopsided, in that cali gives more back. But that doesn't mean cali would have given you those same things.
That said... determining if CA would be better with our without the feds is a complicated question. For one, they would probably need to fund thier own military, as they would be a ripe target given thier economic prosperity.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

We pay more into those federal programs than they spend back on us. If we just kept the taxes locally, while maintaining funding for all those programs, we would come out ahead by a factor of nearly 2:1.

As for military spending, there is a lot of savings to be had by not fighting endless bullshit Christian jihads.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago

Correct. But what you may have implied and got wrong is that this is somehow a bad idea. America is long overdue for a federal collapse. This cultural infighting is unsustainable.

As a new Yorker I am sick of having my tax dollars go to subsidize hicks in the deep south and Midwest that ultimately vote against my rights. I am more than happy to see the bridges that unite us burn because the concept of "unity" in a melting pot is a ticking time bomb, as it always has been.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

I don't want what's best for America. I want what's best for California. It's in a bad relationship and is always the provider and the victim.

Without liberty and justice for all, there can BE no one nation indivisible.

[-] [email protected] 12 points 5 hours ago

The people who want California to just leave are the ones who want to dismantle the country.

This Canadian is fine with it at this point. Fuck the USA. We've been your friend forever and you shit on us.

Burn baby burn.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I wouldn't really want to be sharing the largest land border in the world with the size of tempest brewing up in the US right now, should it ever boil over. Seems like that might be a bit of a nightmare to keep contained.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

The strategy isn't to keep it contained.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

... Wait so you want the war spilling over into canada? Why?

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