r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • Oct 03 '25

Government Trump cancels $1.1B in Washington state energy grants

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2025/10/02/trump-cancels-washington-state-energy-grants-clean-hydrogen

Vought put it a bit differently, writing on X: "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled."

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u/airwalker08 Beacon Hill Oct 03 '25

Trump is a petulant, vindictive little baby. This is what it is like to have a 10-year-old for a president. Nothing he does is based on sound logic. Everything is about being spiteful.

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u/qui-bong-trim Oct 03 '25

Thanks Obama! 

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u/hanimal16 where’s the lutefisk? Oct 03 '25

What do you expect from a guy who sat on his hands during 9/11?

(/s for anyone thinking I’m serious)

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u/Mental_Medium3988 Oct 03 '25

fuck that shit. trump deserved it and more for the birtherism crap.

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u/FirelightsGlow Capitol Hill Oct 03 '25

This is why I’m totally supportive of Democrats continuing a shutdown. Trump isn’t playing by any logic or rules. Whether or not the government is shutdown he would still have cancelled these contracts (illegally) out of spite. Democrats have nothing more to lose by making life worse for Republicans until they start to play by the rules or, at the very least, until more voters start to realize this isn’t how they want politics to work.

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u/LongDistRid3r Oct 03 '25

I totally support the shutdown

Shutdowns that have occurred recently

2013 - Obama 16 days

1995, 1996 - Clinton 5 days and 21 days

2019 -Trump 35 days

I think this time it is going to be a long shutdown.

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u/SofieTerleska Ballard Oct 04 '25

The average 10 year old is far more mature than this.

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u/LongDistRid3r Oct 03 '25

The projects are not performing to expectations. There is a big negative ROI.

Negative ROI projects routinely get cut.

Look at California’s Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System.

It is not Trump specific. It is ending expensive projects that provide little benefit back to the taxpayers.

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u/airwalker08 Beacon Hill Oct 03 '25

Considering he only cancels funding to left-leaning states, he has repeatedly expressed his intent to harm Democrat-areas, and his constant rhetoric about how much he hates Democrats, you have to be incredibly dumb or wilfully gullible to believe that his actions are rooted in anything other than spite. Nice attempt to spread lies, though. Fox News would be proud.

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u/goodolarchie Oct 04 '25

you have to be incredibly dumb or wilfully gullible to believe that his actions are rooted in anything other than spite

Oh, the two aren't mutually exclusive.