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Trump Goons Make Bombshell Admission About Enemies List

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Trump administration officials admitted in court that they canceled hundreds of federal grants simply because they benefited states Kamala Harris won in 2024. "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," an Energy Department lawyer wrote in a July 15 filing. None of the grants were canceled "based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor," the lawyer added. Rather, it was purely political. Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who said at a House hearing in June that "no decisions were made on politics" -- accusations to the contrary, he insisted then, were "b------t." California Governor Gavin Newsom said on X: "The corrupt Trump administration has just admitted to withholding taxpayer dollars from states based on how they voted. Last I checked we were a democracy, not a dictatorship. Where the hell is Congress?" The DOE spokesperson told the Times "there is no contradiction."