[DesertRhino]

That essentially means low tax states are subsidizing high tax states. It was a good move by Trump.

[Alberta's Child]

That seems intuitive, but it's almost certainly incorrect.

By every method I've seen of measuring Federal taxes collected vs. Federal spending by state, there's no doubt that the biggest "donor" states are heavily Democratic states like New York, California, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, etc.

It's mainly a function of urbanization, where these are the states with large urban and suburban populations have millions of middle-class people get pushed into upper-income tax brackets due to the inflated cost of living.

The most heavily subsidized states tend to be the ones that have few cities, large expanses of rural areas, lots of Federal lands and national parks, Indian reservations, and a large military presence.