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.
How could California do that when taxes are paid directly by the taxee to the IRS?
Start cutting power, water, and gas to federal offices and facilities, let’s see if they can do jack shit when it’s 90 degrees outside and 110 inside. Mind you that is just me thinking reconciliation is stupid and shouldn’t be considered as a possibility.
That’s what Trump wants, to burn it all down.
West coast has enough intelligence and money to navigate without the federal govt.
That’s not the point. By cutting off water electricity etc you are helping Trump dismantle the federal government. You know that Trump guy that said “we want federal employees to hate going into work” well congratulations you just helped him big time.
Those very workers might be happy working for the state should CA make that offer to workers helping manage dams etc, particularly if compensation is the same or better. Organizationally, there would be some disarray, but…
It’d be interesting to directly head-hunt the federal offices until they were empty, even if it were just temporary.
Sigh. Federal and state cover different things. If you think you can dismantle the fed and everyone can just go to the state and everything will be the same, then you really are no different than the Trumpers that want to burn everything down. I’m out of this conversation.
Change your withholding, then only pay state tax.
ban local/state agencies from assisting the IRS with tax enforcement