{"id":64738,"date":"2017-01-28T18:20:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T22:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=64738"},"modified":"2017-01-28T18:20:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T22:20:43","slug":"california-threatens-to-cut-off-funds-to-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=64738","title":{"rendered":"California Threatens To Cut Off Funds To Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-28\/soon-there-could-be-only-49-states-america\">With secession threats looming<\/a>, the state of California is reportedly studying ways to <strong>suspend financial transfers to Washington<\/strong> after the Trump administration threatened to withhold federal money from sanctuary cities.<\/p>\n<p>With California counties among the Top 10<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-25\/here-are-23-billion-reasons-why-sanctuary-cities-are-so-upset-trump\"> who <strong>stand to lose tax-payer funding <\/strong><\/a><strong>for providing sanctuary to illegal immigrants<\/strong>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/23\/20170125_sanctuary.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user3303\/imageroot\/2017\/01\/23\/20170125_sanctuary_0.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com\/2017\/01\/27\/california-could-cut-off-feds-in-response-to-trump-threats\/\">KPIX5 reports <\/a>that <strong>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\u2019 worth of federal funds<\/strong> if President Trump makes good on his threat to punish cities and states that don\u2019t cooperate with federal agents\u2019 requests to turn over undocumented immigrants, a senior government source in Sacramento said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" 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href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-28\/california-threatens-cut-funds-washington\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-01-28\/california-threatens-cut-funds-washington<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}