Trump Gets Cornered and Admits $8 Billion Funding Scheme

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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?

Shannon Maldonado 0:00
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Professor Devi Sridhar 0:29
I'm Shannon Maldonado, the founder of Jaui, a gift shop that sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment. It was important for me to consider our development in the future. All tools needed for sales, such as stock planning, are handy on the dashboard. Start your free trial at shopify.com website. I am Shannon Maldonado, the founder of Jaui, a gift shop that sells handmade artisanal products. I chose Shopify because when I tested the equipment, I found it to be one of the easiest to use equipment. It was important for me to consider our development in the future.

What court admission revealed an $8 billion political funding scheme?

Professor Devi Sridhar 1:17
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Shannon Maldonado 1:26
I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills. We can manage the company's background systems and front-end and sell online. If Shopify was a bicycle equipment, it would be a bicycle itself. That way things are handled and our business is handled in Shopify. Start a free trial at shopify.com website. I founded Ornot in 2013. I think the best thing about Shopify is that we can practice business without technical skills.

How did officials describe the criteria for canceling energy grants?

Shannon Maldonado 2:05
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Ben Meiselas 2:24
A stunning admission by the Trump regime in little notice court documents where federal officials said that they intentionally halted billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states based solely on a single criteria. Was it a state that voted for Donald Trump? They were able to keep the funding for energy projects, even though Donald Trump railed against those projects. Was it a state that voted against Donald Trump? Then all of the funding would be stripped away. That was the criteria that was used. Now, this was a lawsuit brought against the Department of Energy. Erwin Chemerinsky is one of the lawyers on this case, the well-known constitutional lawyer. uh and and law dean um here's how it's reported in the times hat tip to tony rome and brad plumber when trump regime cancelled more than 7.5 billion in biden era federal grants for clean energy projects in october it framed the move as urgent and corrective to protect taxpayer funds from waste because donald trump said that we just need big beautiful coal
Ben Meiselas 3:39
We don't need any of this other energy stuff out there. Meanwhile, those were boosts for jobs and for cheaper energy.

Which states were targeted and why were blue states affected?

Ben Meiselas 3:46
But what we now see is in little notice court documents that were recently filed and unearthed, federal officials acknowledged that they had terminated the funding based solely on political criteria. Were you a Trump voter or a Harris Biden voter? or a Harris voter in 2024. It shows how Donald Trump weaponized the provisions of federal education, energy, health, housing, and infrastructure aid on a second term like we know he did. And when you look through these documents, you'll see basically a spreadsheet and a chart that goes into this. In October, the White House Budget Office, led by Russell Vogt, terminated only 284 of these grants in a social media post announcing the news vote pointed out the motivations were this was eight billion dollars in green new scam funding to fuel the left's climate agenda we're canceling it months later in court filings federal officials indicated there was little else that had informed the final decision
Ben Meiselas 4:50
just a broad termination in general and overturning of the policy.

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