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California Could go Rouge and Cut Off Funds to the Fed

California Governor Jerry Brown

CBS’ local affiliate, KPIX, reports that:

Officials are looking for money that flows through Sacramento to the federal government that could be used to offset the potential loss of billions of dollars’ worth of federal funds if President Trump makes good on his threat to punish cities and states that don’t cooperate with federal agents’ requests to turn over undocumented immigrants, a senior government source in Sacramento said.

California is among a handful of so-called “donor states,” which pay more in taxes to the federal Treasury than they receive in government funding.