{"id":22736,"date":"2026-07-25T01:27:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22736"},"modified":"2026-07-25T01:27:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T01:27:30","slug":"trump-administration-admits-grants-for-clean-energy-were-canceled-based-on-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=22736","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration admits grants for clean energy were canceled based on politics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The Trump administration has acknowledged in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.cand.450653\/gov.uscourts.cand.450653.211.6.pdf\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">court documents<\/a>&nbsp;that it&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-clean-energy-hydrogen-hub-newsom-0223cb4469508bcea4f689c18c9ab65d\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">canceled $7.6 billion in grants<\/a>&nbsp;for hundreds of clean energy projects &#8220;based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient&#8217;s state&#8221; \u2014 in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/trump-administration-admits-grants-clean-000651685.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/trump-administration-admits-grants-clean-000651685.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Trump administration has acknowledged in court documents that it canceled $7.6 billion in grants for hundreds of clean energy projects &#8220;based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient&#8217;s state&#8221; \u2014 in this case, 16 states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/politics\/articles\/trump-administration-admits-grants-clean-000651685.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1104,864,431,660,221,170],"class_list":["post-22736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-authoritarianism","tag-autocracy","tag-democracy","tag-dictatorship","tag-donald-trump","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22737,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22736\/revisions\/22737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}