Trump Administration Vindictively Canceling Billions in Clean Energy Grants
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 24, 2026
CONTACT: Gabrielle Levy, Glevy@cacampaign.org, 562-673-6974
CAC’s Margie Alt on the Trump Administration Vindictively Canceling Billions in Clean Energy Grants
WASHINGTON–New court documents published by The New York Times today revealed that the Trump administration selected more than $7.5 billion in clean energy project grants to cancel based on them having “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."
CAC Director Margie Alt released this statement in response:
"Today’s report in The New York Times confirms what we long suspected: Trump’s decision to cancel federal energy grants was politically motivated. Rather than helping provide much-needed cheap, clean energy to Americans, Donald Trump took revenge on states that didn’t vote for him. Donald Trump has always treated the presidency as a tool to enrich himself, reward his friends, and punish his enemies. Thanks to Trump’s reckless, retributive actions, household energy bills are soaring. People of all political stripes are paying the price – in more climate change-fueled extreme weather, polluted air, increased health costs and skyrocketing utility bills – because Trump is a sore winner.
"Funding for these cancelled projects, which would have delivered much-needed clean energy, upgraded aging electrical grids, and reduced climate pollution, must be restored. In addition, the administration must abandon its plan to rewrite federal grantmaking rules to put even more power in the hands of partisans willing to carry out Trump’s vendettas rather than serving in the best interest of the American public. This kind of corruption and favoritism has no place in the highest office in the land."
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