… plan for fiscal year 2025 under a year long continuing resolution in which Congress clearly directed you to maintain the programmatic funding levels that we enacted for the previous year. GAO determined that your plan to reallocate hundreds of millions of dollars that Congress appropriated for R and D in wind, solar, hydrogen, buildings, vehicles and other energy technologies to your own favorite industries is unambiguously illegal. Gao concluded, and this is a quote, DOE is required to obligate and expend its FY 2025 appropriations in accordance with the reference Congressional control point amounts in the FY2024 explanatory statement. (05:19–05:40)
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Asserts that GAO found DOE's reallocation of funds to be illegal.
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