Dear California (just one blue state) we know that you would have been perfectly fine even if you had not received $319 billion in Federal Funds in your budget year 2021-2022.
We also know that even with the reduction in Covid related funding, you're going to be perfectly fine in not receiving the estimated $180 billion in federal funding in the subsequent budget year, on top of the of hundreds of billions a year from federal sources that go to your residents and employees of the (former United States) federal government.
We also know that you'll have no problem at all in meeting your nearly $2 Trillion dollars in unfunded mandates.
Edit: Dear California, please find a job for the 153,000 former U.S. Federal employees currently residing in your state, and please fund the retirement of the 210,000 former Federal employees in your state. Looks like those unfounded mandates may have gone up a notch or two.
