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.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
      215·
      22 hours ago

      I’m pretty sure Texas is the only “legal” state allowed to secede, but I’m not a lawyer and my info may be woefully out of date

      • CXORA@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        The US would never allow that much freedom. It has to ensure everyone is locked down.

          • entwine413@lemm.ee
            8·
            21 hours ago

            That’s irrelevant to whether or not a state has an established legal right to do a thing.

            • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              7 hours ago

              When it gets to the level of a component piece of a country leaving said country, it doesn’t really matter what the law is. The South isn’t part of the US because it was decided that secession was illegal, they’re there because they got their ass beaten.

        • blitzen@lemmy.ca
          112·
          21 hours ago

          The colonies weren’t “allowed” to leave England either, yet here we are.

          Would it cause a civil war? Yea. Would California win? Of course not.

          • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            1·
            6 hours ago

            I’m not convinced it would lead to civil war. It could, but it still takes a lot of manufacturing consent for us to go to war with random brown countries. It’d be no easy task to convince the US population and military we needed to start dropping bombs on Hollywood. Soldiers would desert and other states would think about joining.

          • Pandasdontfly@lemmy.today
            3·
            19 hours ago

            I don’t think it would be at least that simple… Would it be bloody and awful most likely but California holds a lot of military how many would stay loyal is dependent but I could also see some other world power interfering maybe… For better trade or special treatment.

      • Tower@lemmy.zip
        12·
        22 hours ago

        No, Texas (nor any other state) can not secede from the Union.

        https://www.sll.texas.gov/faqs/can-texas-secede

        Can Texas secede? I heard it is one of the only states that can secede from the United States.

        It is a common misunderstanding that Texas has the right to leave the United States. The Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) addresses this on their page about Texas’s annexation:

        It is said of Texas (and, occasionally, Vermont) that it received a letter or document of permission to withdraw from the Federal Union if it so chose. […] In fact, Texas received no special terms in its admission to the Union. Once Texas had agreed to join the Union, she never had the legal option of leaving, either before or after the Civil War.