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Retired wannabe grandmother.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

It appears Energy Secretary Chris Wright was being less than truthful when he told me his department canceled billions in clean energy grants based "on merits and unrelated to politics."

Apparently a clear and direct falsehood while testifying before Congress.

Court documents filed this month show the Trump Administration terminated 283 grants “based solely” on whether the state voted for Kamala Harris in 2024 and had two Democratic senators.

All the grants they cut sat in a state that backed Kamala Harris and has two Democratic senators.

Meanwhile, every grant in a Trump state was left alone.

This was never about waste. It was political revenge, carried out with billions of taxpayer dollars.

I offered an amendment in April to make this exact abuse illegal, and every single Republican on the committee voted against it.

Now the Administration has confessed in court to exactly what it denied before Congress.

They didn’t tell the truth to Congress, weaponized taxpayer dollars, and punished Americans for exercising their right to vote. My Republican colleagues enabled them.

That is corruption. And there must be consequences.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

🤔 DID YOU KNOW? Texas made the same clerical error as New Jersey with noncitizens — but the two instances are being treated very differently.

“Have you heard the Department of Justice condemn Texas?” Marc Elias asks.

If you’re sick of the hypocrisy, join our fight: https://t.co/auxKGg1rl7

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

moron

[Mark 🍁 @Markfry809]

If someone had told me twenty years ago a low IQ convicted felon, rapist and pedophile who paints his face orange, tried to have his VP killed, attempt a coup and make enemies with Canada would one day serve two terms as president I would have told them they were fucking nuts.🤦🏻‍♂️

[Kirsten Gillibrand @SenGillibrand]

Scrubbing fallen service members from official records to hide the true cost of the war in Iran is a disgraceful betrayal of our troops. This administration’s attempt to erase their sacrifice for political cover will not stand.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

What an absolute joke of a man

Douche canoe

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Any Trump official who lied and told the nation these clean energy grant cancellations had nothing to do with politics should resign.

As the administration has now been forced to concede — these cancellations had everything to do with politics.

Of the worst kind.
https://t.co/PuiZN7FIha

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

When Biden was President we could eat eggs AND lettuce

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

After the NY Attorney Grievance Committee refused to investigate Acting AG Todd Blanche, today @DDFund_ & @LDADemocracy called for it to reconsider

The Committee should fulfill its responsibility investigate Todd Blanche 👇 -TN https://t.co/WdZTzPwmF5

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

WHOA!! Rep. Zach Nunn (R-IA) just STRUCK a person asking him a simple question about rural hospital closures.

Reporter: Do you still think rural hospital closures are a myth?

Nunn: I'm with a constituent. Come on.

Reporter: No response, sir? Nunn: I said I'm with a constituent. You should protect their privacy!

*SMACK* Let's go X! Time make this go VIRAL!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If getting an abortion is murder, then a child dying because their parents refused to vaccinate them should be too.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Caller: I was laughing for the wrong reasons. It was so bad. The world is watching this speech and I'm embarrassed for America

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

trump crushed us with tariffs.
He started an illegal war with Iran.
The Strait is now CLOSED.
Gas and grocery prices are higher.

But NOT ONE of these jackass Republicans can find ONE THING wrong with what he's done??

#RepublicanCostOfCorruption should be Voters FIRING THEM ALL IN NOVEMBER.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"There is a country in the Middle East, whose name begins with an 'I' that has not just nuclear power, but nuclear weapons... Israel. It doesn't allow inspectors in."

Nice to be back on @MSNOWNews, with @AliVelshi, discussing Israel's actual nukes vs Iran's imaginary ones.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: VINDICTIVE RETALIATION! Trump's own administration just admitted under oath that it canceled $7.5 billion in clean energy grants to states that didn't vote for him.

They finally admitted it. In their own words, in federal court.

The Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in clean energy grants last October, claiming it was rooting out waste. As anyone with a modicum of consciousness expected, that was a lie. Federal officials have now conceded, in court documents, that they terminated the funding "based solely" on whether the recipient states voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Read that language again: "with one exception," a Department of Energy lawyer admitted, "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... and has two Democratic-caucusing senators." The lawyer further conceded none of it was based on "any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor."

This isn't spin. This is the government confessing, under oath, to punishing Americans for how their state voted.
The Energy Department had originally recommended canceling over 600 grants across BOTH red and blue states. But when Russell Vought's budget office got involved, hundreds of grants in Republican states were quietly left untouched, while projects in Democratic states — grid upgrades in California and Oregon, methane leak reduction in Colorado, clean hydrogen hubs in the Pacific Northwest — got axed.

Vought even bragged about it publicly, framing it as killing "Green New Scam funding." This from a man who rivals Stephen Miller for the distinction of being the most evil person in the Trump administration — where there is admittedly quite a bit of competition for that title.

This directly contradicts sworn congressional testimony from Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who told lawmakers in June: "No decisions were made on politics." That claim just collapsed in a courtroom. It certainly sounds like a perjury charge is warranted here.

Senator Patty Murray and Representative Marcy Kaptur didn't mince words: "This is an astounding admission that the president and his team corruptly abused their power to kill good jobs and punish hard-working families because of their political views."

And it's about to get worse. The administration is finalizing new rules giving Trump's political appointees direct control over more than $1 TRILLION in annual federal grants — with power to block funding that doesn't align with his political priorities.

This isn't fiscal responsibility. It's a president using your tax dollars as a weapon against Americans who didn't vote for him and consolidating his authoritarian power.
Please like and share if Trump’s lies and vindictiveness make you apoplectic!

#RepublicanCostOfCorruption

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

He literally doesn’t give a shit that his war, his tariffs, and his inflation have decimated your bank account and taken money out of your wallet.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WHAT THE FUCK DOES THIS MEAN:

TRUMP: “Some of you are lucky the last dinner got cut short. I brought something with me…I had something, I was gonna go after you. Your lives were put in danger for a different reason. But on the plus side, your careers were saved.”

[TheArtisReport @GrandaddySpeak1]

Dems, Trump is giving you a layup for the November midterms. Instead, you’re arguing about Dem v Democratic Socialist. Sit down and STFU. The only thing that should matter right now is taking over BOTH houses of Congress.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

I wouldn't eat dinner with Donald Trump if he paid me. Sadly, that is not true of much of the corporate legacy media. Tonight, hundreds of journalists will gather to honor him.

If you support pro-democracy independent media, subscribe to Democracy Docket. https://t.co/XNx8W5tRQA

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@SenOssoff (D-GA) blames RFK Jr. for the Cyclospora outbreak: "He cancelled the CDC's required FoodNet monitoring of Cyclospora and he refuses to answer my inquiries."