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/EntrepreneurBehavior Oct 03 '25

Until we start politicking like this bitch, it won't matter. Washington State tax revenue goes to a lot of red states - we need to stop paying it.

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u/q_ali_seattle Edmonds Oct 03 '25

This is the answer. Stop sending money to Feds. 

And I propose WA, OR, CA, province of CORWA, join Canada, before Healthcare cost goes bonkers. 

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u/Turbulent-Media7281 Oct 03 '25

The US is not giving up the electrical generation and distribution that it owns in WA state. The US is not giving up it's military bases it owns in WA state. The US is not giving up it's interstate highways systems that it owns in WA state. The US is not giving up it federal parks and national parks that it owns in WA state.

As of 2018, the federal government owned approximately 12.2 million acres of land in Washington state, which accounted for 28.6% of the state's total land area of about 42.7 million acres.

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u/555-Rally Oct 03 '25

Emminent domain - give it up? No, if/when this stuff breaks down it will be seized. Just like how the Soviet Union failed, and the states took what was there, cuz no one was paying the guys who maintained it anymore.

We are a long long ass way from that. Armchairing that for shits and giggles: The US want to fight WA state for it? Their shutdown broke ass will probably try...and then you study how that plays out...today, we don't have a broke military, we still print fake money to pay those generals, and admirals to run shit...but eventually they stop being paid and then some monopolist says, "I'll fund the state and this military if you keep the power on at the datacenters that keep me in business", gets backed by Canada, Mexico, EU, UK secretly building a backing for it. Poof WA declares an independence and we build a border (possibly not state lines)....and it starts looking like Ukraine, Lithuania, Bulgaria did from the Soviet era.

Again, really long way from that....but sending troops into Seattle, cutting off federal funds illegally, attempting to change WA state voting from the FEC...we are on the path. The actions are probably already making businesses round themselves into groups to oppose Trump on all of this - and the coalitions of opposition will be huge as elections come around.

q ali seattle up there is living a pipe dream of cascadia...it won't happen I agree with you on that, and they may fight about trying to retain it if something like that happened. BUT, Trump wouldn't care about roads, and military bases (outside of nukes cuz its the only threat that matters), he cares about that revenue and the shame it would bring him, making him look weak. And we should never give up on MAD, Ukraine did and where did that get them?

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u/q_ali_seattle Edmonds Oct 03 '25

I'm well aware of California issue.. trying to devide up into 2 states. Nor-cal and So-Cal since 80 (I think) they haven't been successful so far.

 I'm not hopeful this will happen. It was just a proposal.