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They Admitted It in Court: Trump Canceled Billions to Punish States That Voted Against Him · Uncensored Objection

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  SPEAKER_00: The Trump administration has admitted in court that it canceled billions of dollars
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  SPEAKER_00: in federal grants based purely on politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: After four decades of cross-examining witnesses,
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  SPEAKER_00: exposing liars,
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  SPEAKER_00: and trying cases, one thing is crystal clear, and this is what you need to know.
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  SPEAKER_00: In October of last year, the White House, the Trump administration, canceled more than 7.5
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  SPEAKER_00: in clean energy grants extended to you by the Biden administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump officials framed these cuts as a fight against waste.
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  SPEAKER_00: Court filings this month.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tell a completely different story.
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  SPEAKER_00: A lawyer for the Energy Department in writing conceded in court that officials ended
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  SPEAKER_00: the funding based solely on political criteria.
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  SPEAKER_00: By that I mean they targeted states that voted for Kamala Harris
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  SPEAKER_00: and elected Democratic senators.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Energy Department had recommended canceling more than 600 grants
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  SPEAKER_00: across both Republican and Democratic states.
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  SPEAKER_00: But of course, that's not what happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House Budget Office, led by Russell Voight, cut only 284.
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  SPEAKER_00: And with one exception,
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  SPEAKER_00: every single one of those cuts canceled a grant in a state that Harris won.
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  SPEAKER_00: The administration left Republican state grants in place,
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  SPEAKER_00: including grants its own review flagged for termination.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cuts killed real projects.
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  SPEAKER_00: They halted electrical grid upgrades in California and Oregon,
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  SPEAKER_00: methane reduction work in Colorado,
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  SPEAKER_00: and clean hydrogen hubs across the Pacific Northwest.
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  SPEAKER_00: The cuts hurt people in all of these states,
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  SPEAKER_00: regardless of whether they were Democrats or Republicans.
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  SPEAKER_00: The admission in court that
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  SPEAKER_00: the Trump administration did this also contradicts prior sworn testimony.
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  SPEAKER_00: Energy Secretary Chris Wright told a House hearing last June
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  SPEAKER_00: that no decisions were made based upon politics.
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  SPEAKER_00: The court records just released indicate otherwise.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now this isn't an isolated act.
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  SPEAKER_00: Other agencies screened grants focusing on keywords tied to Trump's political policies.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House is now finalizing rules that would let political appointees review,
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  SPEAKER_00: block, or revoke more than $1 trillion in annual federal grants.
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  SPEAKER_00: Using the federal budget abandons any pretense of governing for all Americans.
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  SPEAKER_00: Congress, the elected representatives who represent all states, approved this money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Taxpayers in every state funded it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Turning public dollars into partisan weapons corrodes the basic trust
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  SPEAKER_00: that federal spending serves the country rather than a president that happens to sit
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  SPEAKER_00: in the Oval Office.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the written section of today's post, I'll share a direct link to the court documents.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can read them yourself.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'll also share my take on eight specific laws, rules,
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  SPEAKER_00: and regulations that have been violated because of this misguided
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  SPEAKER_00: and probably illegal decision made by the Trump administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you want more updates like this,
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  SPEAKER_00: stay connected with me over at my substack, Uncensored Objection.