Federal watchdog says Trump’s $810M funding cancellation is unconstitutional - Live Updates - POLITICO

“Any withholding of appropriated funds beyond their date of expiration, regardless of size, subverts both the constitutional process for enacting federal law and Congress’s constitutional power of the purse,” Perez added. “The President may not force the expiration of budget authority Congress has already enacted and did not rescind.”…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/29/congress/pocket-rescission-gao-unconstitutional-01096965

 

New York and California sue to block Trump's plans to cancel offshore wind projects | PBS News

"Americans are facing increasing energy costs because this administration would rather pay off energy companies than let us build the new power sources we need," James said in a statement. "These illegal backroom deals take money that should have gone toward lowering New Yorkers' bills and hand it to fossil fuel projects in other states."…

 https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/new-york-and-california-sue-to-block-trumps-plans-to-cancel-offshore-wind-projects

 

Democrats warn Trump plans to kill $3.2B in Hill-approved foreign aid - Live Updates - POLITICO

Congress “did not hand Trump a checkbook to spend on whatever he pleases while blocking funding for everything else,” Murray and Schatz said in a joint statement, urging Republican lawmakers to join them in demanding that the administration use those dollars “as Congress intended” before they expire next week…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/09/22/congress/usaid-shutdown-efforts-continue-01087928

Trump’s Mindless Rollback of Offshore Wind Has Screwed Over Thousands of Workers – Mother Jones

The millwrights “did a good job, and they’re bummed out that they’re middle-class workers being used as pawns.”…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-rollback-cancellation-offshore-wind-projects-workers-job-losses-unions/

 

Trump Keeps Spending US Tax Dollars to Kill Offshore Wind and Boost Oil and Gas – Mother Jones

The administration’s $1.2 billion deal with a German firm to cancel leases is its fifth to date...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-rwe-offshore-wind-leases-cancellation-payment-tax-dollars-oil-gas-fossil-fuel/

Trump administration cancels research grants tied to states that voted for Harris in 2024

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0clYBq4lcI

 

OMB nominee touts plan to give Trump appointees power to kill grants - Live Updates - POLITICO

“That really sounds to me like you all are trying to turn the entire federal government into this one big slush fund to reward those aligned with the administration and punish everyone else,” Washington Sen. Patty Murray, the Senate’s top Democratic appropriator, told Duncan on Tuesday, during his first confirmation hearing before the Budget Committee…

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/06/17/congress/omb-pick-talks-grant-shakeup-00964909

 

Judge Says EPA Illegally Canceled a $2.8 Billion Environmental Justice Program – Mother Jones

As Jackson warned, it’s hard to view it as a coincidence that a Supreme Court majority built on fossil fuel money went out of its way to help the industry. Indeed, the case is emblematic of a broader distortion of American law. Billionaires and the industries they run have a well-monied thumb on the scales of justice, an oligarchic influence operation that, among other tactics, funds a flood of amici to push the justices toward a preferred outcome…

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/judge-says-epa-illegally-cancelled-bidens-2-8-billion-environmental-justice-grants-program/

 

Six States Are Suing the Trump Administration Over Its Deal to Kill an Offshore Wind Project – Mother Jones

The $1 billion TotalEnergies payout was unlawful, attorneys general say...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/states-sue-trump-administration-kill-totalenergies-offshore-wind-project-payout-billion/

 

Why the Trump administration is paying billions to abandon wind farms

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O73_qd8YQus

US to pay almost $1bn to French energy company to kill wind project plan

"This is political theater meant to obscure the fact that offshore wind capacity is being pulled out of the pipeline when energy prices are skyrocketing, even as other offshore wind projects continue delivering reliable and affordable power to the grid," Sam Salustro, a senior vice-president of pro-offshore wind group Oceantic Network, said in a statement. "Paying to remove affordable, homegrown energy out of the equation leaves American consumers struggling to pay their electricity bills."… 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/23/trump-administration-wind-project-plan

 

USDA cancels $300 million program to help farmers buy land amid anti-DEI push - POLITICO

The funding cancellations come as the challenges facing farmers — especially young and beginning farmers — remain steep. The vast majority of farmland is owned by nonfarming landlords, according to an annual survey USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service released March 12...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/24/usda-cancels-program-help-farmers-buy-land-00841948 

 

Every Artist CANCELS On Trump's Kennedy Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC9Y7r_0fM

 

New Year’s Eve concert is latest cancellation at the Kennedy Center - The Washington Post

"I would never even consider performing in a venue bearing a name (and being controlled by the kind of board) that represents overt racism and deliberate destruction of African American music and culture," he said…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/2025/12/29/new-years-eve-kennedy-center-concert-canceled/

🚨 Trump SUDDENLY CANCELS Meeting to STOP SHUTDOWN!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qYbO6XZAbE

 

West Point cancels ceremony to honor Tom Hanks as ‘outstanding US citizen’

It's not clear how honoring Hanks conflicts with "preparing cadets", but the actor has donated to Democrats; received the Presidential Medal of Freedomfrom Barack Obama; and endorsed Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/06/west-point-cancels-tom-hanks-ceremony

 

Canadian cities cancel US Christian nationalist’s performances

Eight cities have revoked permits for Sean Feucht, a pro-Trump preacher and singer, sparking free speech debate

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/08/sean-feucht-canada-tour-cancellation

USDA halts millions of dollars worth of deliveries to food banks - POLITICO

"I certainly look at our lines and look at our shelves and say we need some relief," said Joree Novotny, executive director of the Ohio Association of Foodbanks, which also reported canceled deliveries with no indication they would resume...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/19/usda-halts-deliveries-food-banks-trump-00239453

 

Democrats unveil school lunch debt cancellation measure

"'School lunch debt' is a term so absurd that is shouldn't even exist. I'm proud to lead the fight to cancel our nation's school meal debt – it's long past time to stop humiliating kids and penalizing hunger," Fetterman said…https://thehill.com/homenews/education/5192757-school-meal-debt-cancellation-bill/

FDA cancels meeting to pick flu vaccine strains for next winter

"The abrupt cancellation of the FDA's next vaccine advisory committee meeting is a deeply concerning development that could delay and disrupt a critical step in production of the annual flu vaccine," Partnership to Fight Infectious Disease said in a statement...

https://www.axios.com/2025/02/27/fda-flu-vaccine-meeting-canceled-rfk-jr