"You might not have seen the headline today that today a federal court blocked the Trump administration from cutting energy funding just for blue states. This is billions of dollars Congress appropriated for clean energy projects of various kinds all over the country. Trump administration decided, and they admitted this they decided that just in blue states, just in states that didn't vote for Trump, they would cut all of that funding. They'd leave the funding in place in states that voted for Trump. They would cut it in states that didn't vote for Trump. A federal court today ruled that that is illegal and stopped the Trump administration from doing that."
"That ruling today came after another federal court today stopped Trump from shutting down a big offshore wind farm in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Trump's shutdown of that project, according to the courts today, was also illegal. And so, yet another federal court blocked Trump on that as well. So that work on the wind farm will be able to go ahead."
Federal courts recently blocked multiple actions by the Trump administration, including attempts to cut clean energy funding targeted only at states that did not vote for Trump. The administration admitted plans to withhold billions in congressional appropriations for clean energy projects from blue states. Separate courts ruled the administration's effort to stop a large offshore wind farm in Rhode Island and Connecticut illegal, allowing that project to proceed. Courts also blocked cancellation of federal grants to the American Academy of Pediatrics after the group criticized Health and Human Services policies. These rulings indicate an accelerating pace of judicial rebukes against administration policies.
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