Overview
- A July 15 court filing by the Energy Department acknowledged that a list of canceled grants was chosen “based solely” on whether projects were located in states that voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.
- The Office of Management and Budget terminated 284 grants in October 2025 as part of the cuts, a tranche officials and reporting place at roughly $7.5–7.6 billion in lost awards.
- With one exception, the 284 canceled awards were for projects whose recipient location or place of performance was in states that voted for Harris and have two Democratic-caucusing senators.
- Local reporting shows concrete impacts from the terminations, including a job-skills program in Stockton and a $35 million hydrogen production project in Lodi that lost federal backing.
- The admission has spurred litigation wins for some plaintiffs, a Senate Democratic letter demanding restoration of funds, claims from advocacy groups of larger tallies, and renewed concern that OMB rule changes could let partisan officials control future grant decisions while the administration denies politicization of individual terminations.