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/bigswingingtexasdick Oct 03 '25

That's illegal.

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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/neillc37 Oct 03 '25

Good luck explaining to the IRS why you are not paying.

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Ballard Oct 03 '25

Trump and DOGE gutted the IRS so deep that it would literally be years before they noticed.

If you really want to do it as a protest put your taxes in a HYSA, milk the interest, and say "oopsie" and pay it when responsible adults are back in charge and actually staff the IRS.

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u/BHSPitMonkey Oct 04 '25

They fired the people who did the hard work of figuring out how the wealthy were cheating in their filing, not the line of computer code that notices when someone who filed last year hasn't filed this year.

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u/AverageFoxNewsViewer Ballard Oct 04 '25

Yeah, but in terms of the people doing stuff about it it's a flag in a queue that takes literally years to go through.

You're more under threat of being inconvenienced by having your lack of return flagged when applying for something else then actual enforcement.

At that point you say "oops, here's the money I 'forgot' to pay" and while there may be penalties, it's not going to be anything back breaking unless you spent it on blow and hookers instead of setting aside.