In withholding energy funds, D.C. rulers try dictatorial tactics to coerce conformity among infidel states
At least 15 climate change projects in Washington and Oregon have lost their federal funding because the majority of voters in the two states are politically Democratic.
The U.S. Department of Energy admitted this fact in a July 15 federal legal filing.
Oregon and Washington are among the 15 states that have lost federal grants covering research, development of alternative energy and improving management of electric grids.
In October 2025, the Department of Energy eliminated roughly $7.5 billion in grants to 15 states. Those states are legally contesting the loss of these 284 grants in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.
Federal attorneys acknowledged in a May 15 set of stipulated facts that they eliminated the grants because the majority of voters in those states voted against President Trump in the 2024 election, or because they currently have two Democratic U.S. senators.
The government’s July 15 filing said: “The 284 terminated grants … (were) in a state that awarded its electoral votes to Kamala Harris in the 2024 election and has two Democratic-caucusing Senators.”
The filing continued: “The remaining approximately 340 grants proposed for termination were not terminated in October 2025, and they have not since been terminated. All such grants … (were) in a state that awarded its electoral votes to President Trump in the 2024 election or has at least one Republican-caucusing Senator.”
“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,” said congressional budget leaders Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash. and Sen. Marcy Kaptur, D-Ohio said in a press release. “Weaponizing the federal government like this is outright un-American.”
Here’s a rundown of the terminated Oregon and Washington grants.
• The Biden administration earmarked $1 billion in 2024 to convert the Pacific Northwest into a hub for the creation and distribution of clean hydrogen as a fuel. The Trump administration eliminated the first $27.5 million allocation.
• Four grants to Washington State University for solar power and biochar research. Biochar is a charcoal-like substance that can be burned while releasing little or no carbon.
• A study that would have looked into replacing a 15-year-old, gas-powered shuttle bus operating between Warm Springs and Madras, Oregon, with an electric bus.
• A grant to Warm Springs Power Enterprises to upgrade a transmission line between Salem and Madras, Oregon.
• A grant to Spokane Edo (an energy technology company) to install energy-efficiency measures in commercial and residential buildings in Spokane.
• Three grants to Portland General Electric Co. One eliminated grant of $3.825 million would have created a demonstration project combining wind and solar power with a battery-storage facility. A terminated grant with an unlisted dollar amount would have improved management of the regional electrical grid. Another eliminated grant of $50 million would have tackled the same subject.
• Portland-based PacifiCorp lost $5.1 million to improve its grid management.
• Bellevue-based truck manufacturer PACCAR lost two grants of $33 million and $35 million to develop emission-free trucks.
• A $2.5 million grant to Oregon State University for research of offshore wind turbines.
• A grant with an unlisted dollar amount to the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance, a Portland-based coalition of roughly 140 Northwest utilities and related entities.
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