The president doesn't have the ability to just say, I'm not going to deliver that when Congress has passed it and it's been signed into law. And President Trump and the Trump administration froze those grants for seemingly no reason sometimes. And we proved that in court. In fact, just two days ago, the administration admitted in their court filings that it froze billions of dollars of federal energy grants to states solely because those states didn't vote for Donald Trump in the 2024 elections. (03:04–03:13)
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Asserts that the Trump administration arbitrarily froze federal grants.
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