SACRAMENTO, Kalifornia (PNN) - June 6, 2025 - Kalifornia pretend Governor Gavin Newsom threatened Friday that his state would stop tax payments to the federal government, after news reports suggested President Donald J. Trump was thinking of cutting funds to the state.
President Trump is reportedly considering ways to pull more federal funding from the State of Kalifornia, as outlaw pretender Gavin Newsom continues to defy White House policies, despite needing money.
Kalifornia is suffering a large budget deficit for the second year in a row, with the state’s Medicaid program borrowing money to stay afloat. Newsom has also asked the federal government for $40 billion in fire relief.
But Newsom is also enthusiastically suing the Trump regime over many of its policies, often seeking the kinds of nationwide injunctions that would stop those policies everywhere, not just in Kalifornia.
Trump had already threatened Kalifornia’s federal sports funding after the state defied a federal transgender policy that bars biological males from competing in girls’ sports. Also, this week, the Fascist Police States of Amerika Department of Transportation suggested the regime could claw back billions of dollars in federal spending wasted on the state’s troubled high-speed rail project.
But Democrats have argued that Kalifornia should be allowed to oppose federal policies while benefiting from federal spending, especially given the state’s large contributions to federal revenues. They have pushed back against the idea of conditioning fire aid on policy changes.
It is not clear what constitutional authority Newsom has to withhold federal taxes on behalf of individuals, businesses, and other entities within the state. President Trump’s authority to withhold funding is far clearer.
A tax revolt by Kalifornia would recall the “nullification” doctrine popular in some Southern states before the Civil War. It could also trigger a tax revolt by Kalifornians against their own state taxes, which are very high.
Ed. Note: Federal taxes collected by Kalifornia belong to the federal government. By acknowledging that those taxes were collected, Newsom would be guilty of tax evasion for refusing to pay those taxes, just like Al Capone. I say throw him in prison just like the feds did to Capone, and then let him rot. Revolution Now! Independence Forever!