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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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[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 35 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You're assuming Trump wouldn't also fuck over troops stationed here in California. Remember military personnel are reliant on local infrastructure in a lot of areas and if Trump starts fucking with it again the military may be caught in the crossfire.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 40 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm assuming the comment "declaring martial law" would require nat guard (natives) and stationed troops (federal) to attempt to impose order. Not sure what that has to do with local infra, but the last time they tried that (LA Riots) it didn't go great. Doing it for a strictly political reason would likely result in some very hard decisions for a lot of nat guard and some federal career military. The Nat Guard and federales couldn't even restore order in South Central when most of the state was in their corner, it'd be madness to think they could handle the whole state when it was over a pissing match.

California gets roughly $162.9 billion from the fed. California pays roughly $692 billion to the fed in taxes.

It'd be pretty easy to see them choosing to just withhold whatever Trump decided to deny them and say "fine, then we'll just make up the offset, suck it", and then things would get interesting indeed.

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 7 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I thought ya meant that because of how militarized the state was it'd be hard for the state to respond. I was just stating you could cut water and electricity as a response to that.

But yeah you are right on the fact the response would at best be a mess, honestly if they were told to occupy the state they'd probably just sit around getting heat stroke and doing nothing.

[–] miguel@fedia.io 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

(cue cut scene of Twenty-nine Palms) :D I think you're right

[–] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 4 points 20 hours ago

That entire section of the hi desert may as well be summarized as "do nothing get heat stroke".