According to the ministry, 321 financial grants for 223 projects are canceled “which leads to savings of around $ 7.56 billion for American taxpayers”. The projects would not “do justice to the nation’s energy needs”. A list of which projects it is initially not existed. The recipients of federal funds have 30 days to object to the deletion of the funds.
The head of the Office for Administration and Budget, Russell Vough, subordinate to the President, spoke in short message Service X based on the Green New Deal concept for the ecological renovation of the economic system by a “Green-New Scam financing”, which would be ended. With this “dizziness” the left climatic agenda “should be promoted. He also listed the states affected by the decision – 16 countries in which Trump had not won in the 2024 election, including California and New York.
California’s governor Gavin Newsom said that the Trump government wanted to delete up to $ 1.2 billion for a large hydrogen project and thus threatens tens of thousands of jobs. “In Trump’s America, energy policy is determined by the highest bidder, regardless of the economy and common sense,” said the Democrat. He will continue to pursue the strategy for clean energy, “no matter what (Washington) DC tries to dictate”.
The background is the budget dispute: Trump needs the consent of the Democrats in the Senate for a new transitional budget by November. The deadline for this expired on Wednesday, the USA has been in the so -called shutdown since then – the federal administration is subject to a budget lock until further notice. Trump had threatened massive layoffs and cuts in the government before the start of the shutdown and blamed the Democrats.
