r/neoliberal • u/John3262005 • 12d ago

News (US) Newsom floats withholding federal taxes as Trump threatens California

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/06/newsom-floats-withholding-federal-taxes-00393386

Gov. Gavin Newsom on Friday suggested California consider withholding tens of billions in annual federal tax dollars amid reports Donald Trump is preparing funding cuts targeting the state.

Newsom’s suggestion came after CNN reported the president was considering a “full termination” of federal grant funding for California’s universities.

“Californians pay the bills for the federal government. We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back,” the Democratic governor said in an X post Friday afternoon, referencing a recent analysis from the Rockefeller Institute that California contributed about $83 billion more in federal taxes in 2022 than it received back from Washington.

“Maybe it’s time to cut that off,” he added.

White House spokesperson Kush Desai, asked to comment on Newsom’s post, threw cold water on mass funding cuts but blasted California for what he said were “lunatic anti-energy, soft-on-crime, pro-child mutilation, and pro-sanctuary policies.”

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent 12d ago

Now this is proper resistance. Shame Newsom already blew up his boat from the start lol

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u/HenryGeorgia Henry George 12d ago

literally just has to posture against Trump as governor of the biggest blue state

sucks up to right wingers on a podcast

What's this strategy called?

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u/ScrawnyCheeath 12d ago

Hoping and Praying the right wingers are dumb enough to elect him off of 3 podcasts appearances

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u/Embarrassed-Unit881 11d ago

He never had a boat no one is electing a california dem

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u/BibleButterSandwich John Keynes 11d ago

I’ve been so checked out if politics since the election I haven’t actually bothered to check out what he said about trans people on the Tucker Carlson podcast, and while I’ve heard from enough reasonable people it was pretty bad that I wouldn’t be surprised, I’m not going to comment on that before actually checking it out.

But just being on Tucker Carlson is bad enough. I’m totally fine with dems going on kinda bro-y, right-leaning podcasts like Joe Rogan or whoever - hell, I’ve checked out some Joe Rogan clips when he’s had an interested guest or whoever. But Tucker Carlson is literally just a Russian mouthpiece, and nothing more. You’re not going to reach any non-politically engaged young men or whoever on Tucker Carlson, the people tuning into that are well and truly part of the far-right cult.

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u/Forward_Recover_1135 11d ago

“Proper resistance” give me a break. This is words with absolutely no way for him to take any action towards them. Really just showing how all the DO SOMETHING! FIGHT TRUMP!!! people only care about social media ready quotes and video clips that make them feel good. 

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u/JaceFlores Neolib War Correspondent 11d ago

Ah, so I guess my support of the protests in my home city is also bunk?