A stunning admission by the Trump regime in little notice court documents where federal officials said that they intentionally halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states based solely on a single criteria.

Was it a state that voted for Donald Trump? They were able to keep the funding

for energy projects, even though Donald Trump railed against those projects. Was it a state

that voted against Donald Trump? Then all of the funding would be stripped away. That

was the criteria that was used. Now, this was a lawsuit brought against the Department of Energy.

Erwin Chimarinsky is one of the lawyers on this case, the well-known constitutional lawyer and law dean.

Here's how it's reported in the Times, hat tip to Tony Rome and Brad Plummer.

When Trump regime canceled more than $7.5 billion in Biden-era federal grants for clean energy projects,

in October it framed the move as urgent and corrective to protect taxpayer funds from waste

because Donald Trump said that we just need big,

beautiful coal. We don't need any of this other energy stuff out there. Meanwhile, those were

boosts for jobs and for cheaper energy. But what we now see is in little notice court documents

that were recently filed then on earth.

Federal officials acknowledged that they had terminated the funding based solely on political criteria.

Were you a Trump voter or a Harris Biden voter or a Harris voter in 2024?

It shows how Donald Trump weaponized the provisions of federal education, energy, health, housing,

and infrastructure aid on a second term like we know he did.

And when you look through these documents, you'll see basically a spreadsheet and a chart that goes into this. In October, the White House Budget

Office, led by Russell Vote, terminated only 284 of these grants in a social media post

announcing the news. Vote pointed out the motivations were, this was $8 billion in green

news scam funding to fuel the left's climate agenda. We're canceling

it. Months later in court filings, federal officials indicated there was little else that had

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