Trump Goons Make Bombshell Admission About Enemies List

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Trump administration officials admitted in court that they canceled hundreds of federal grants simply because they benefited states Kamala Harris won in 2024.

That stunning acknowledgment, which contradicts what the administration said last fall when canceling upwards of $7.5 billion in funds, came in court documents this month, The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/trump-state-grants-canceled.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share" rel="" target="_blank" title="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/business/trump-state-grants-canceled.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share">reported.

Several grant awardees had sued over the cancellations, and as a result, the Trump administration’s weaponization of all sorts of aid is now coming into fuller view.

Last year, the Energy Department presented the White House Budget Office with a list of more than 600 Biden-era grants in blue and red states that it said should be canceled.

But in October, the budget office, under 50-year-old Director Russ Vought, https://x.com/russvought/status/1973450301236715838?lang=en" rel="" target="_blank" title="https://x.com/russvought/status/1973450301236715838?lang=en">canceled 284 of those grants.

Of them, 283 were in blue states.

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