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.

  • Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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    23 hours ago

    This is a test of the Union that formed after the Civil War. We should have scrubbed the Electoral College then and we should have forced the redistribution of land to the slaves. With federal forces providing local police protection. So the palm colored people couldn’t hurt them.

    • TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee
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      4 hours ago

      This is no longer a test, it is a reality. Too many branches of the federal government are corrupt, with legal exceptions to back them up. If a bridge is no longer just in need of severe maintenance but is in the process of crumbling, do you still call it and use it as a bridge? That’s the actual state of your Union right now. I don’t think seceding is realistically an option right now because it requires opposition that just isn’t there, but I don’t see any other realistic alternative. Look at LA, that’s falling directly into Trump’s hands by giving him emergency powers and control of the national guard, the only difference if a state attempts to secede is that it has more of a chance to use its institutions to resist. The excuse under a dictatorship is always doomed to be manufactured if not forced.

      • Cocopanda@lemmy.world
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        37 minutes ago

        They are acting like people are going to attack the headquarters. Like this is Libya. But guess what? If anyone shoots. It will be the feds starting it off.

    • barneypiccolo@lemm.eeEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      Unfortunately, Lincoln was murdered soon after the South surrendered, and Andrew Johnson, a drunken Confederate sympathizer took over as president, and led the post-war Reconstruction.