Headline Roundup • July 26th, 2026
Trump Admin Canceled Green Energy Grants Based on How States Voted in 2024
Politics,2024 Presidential Election,Trump Administration,Donald Trump,Blue States,Department Of Energy,Energy,Environment,Polarization
Summary from the AllSides News Team
The Trump administration said in a court filing last week that in October 2025 it canceled $7.5 billion in research grants to green energy projects in states "solely" based on whether they awarded their electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
The Details: In the filing, the Department of Energy (DOE) said it compiled a list of 624 grants to consider for termination, and the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) canceled 284 of them. With the exception of one, all the projects that lost funding were in states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.
Previous Framing: The New York Times (Lean Left bias) prominently noted that at the time, the DOE framed the cuts as a way to correct spending and save taxpayers money.
Key Quotes: Jeff Novak, the principal deputy general counsel of the Department of Energy, wrote in the filing, "With one exception, the 284 terminated grants had a recipient location and/or at least one place of performance in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and has two Democratic-caucusing Senators." He added, "DOE accepts that the inclusion of grants in the October notice tranche was based solely on the political identity of the grant recipient's state" and "not based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction, or performance-based factor."
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How The Media Covered It: The story was widely covered by outlets from the left and center, but barely by the right. The New York Post (Lean Right) was the only outlet from the right that AllSides found to cover the story. Newsmax (Right) republished wire coverage from Associated Press (Lean Left). The New York Times first reported the news and described the court filing as "little-noticed." The Post called the filing a "stunning admission."
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Featured Coverage of this Story
Federal green grants canceled last year were selected "solely" based on a state's political affiliation, the Trump administration said in a recent court filing.
In the filing, Department of Energy (DOE) lawyer Jeff Novak said the department came up with a list of 624 grants slated for potential termination.
In a stunning admission, the Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing last week that it whittled down a list of more than 600 clean energy project grants by only terminating the ones in states that voted for former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election.
The July 15 filing, made in a case challenging the Trump administration's cancellation of Biden-era grants, indicates the Department of Energy compiled a list of 624 grants to axe last fall before the White House Office of Management and Budget trimmed it...
Alex Kent/The New York Times
When the Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in Biden-era federal grants for clean energy projects in October, it framed the move as an urgent corrective to protect taxpayer funds from waste.
But it wasn't true.
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