Trump Just Used a $500 Million Clean Steel Grant to Fund a Coal Furnace – Mother Jones

Today’s announcement makes official what Cliffs has been signaling would happen in recent months. The change of plans has drawn pushback from green-steel advocates and some Middletown residents, who say they are dismayed that funding meant to slash industrial emissions could potentially amp up local air pollution instead...

 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/08/trump-clean-steel-grant-coal-biden-inflation-reduction-act-misallocation-congressional-funding

Court rules against West Virginia in $5,000,000 religious grant controversy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3LQfbWX_9s

Trump to reportedly cut grant for key US steel project in Vance’s home town

Donald Trump is looking to slash a $500m grant from the Biden administration that was slated for Cleveland-Cliffs, a steel manufacturing giant in America's rust belt, according to reporting from CNN. The grant was intended to help the company upgrade its ageing blast furnaces, so they would be powered by hydrogen, natural gas and electricity instead of coal, the dirtiest fossil fuel...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/08/trump-steel-manufacturer-cuts

 

FBI takes up EPA probe amid pushback from judge, prosecutors - The Washington Post

"It's certainly unusual for any case to involve two different U.S. attorney offices declining a case for lack of probable cause and to have the Department of Justice continue to shop it. That's very unusual. And certainly it would be unusual to continue to shop it after a judge turned it down," he said. "You can't seize a truck, you can't seize a backpack, you can't seize a pair of socks without probable cause."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/27/trump-fbi-epa-grant-investigation/

Atheists sue West Virginia water agency over $5 million grant to Catholic school

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk4p1SqZqso

 

Administration wants to exclude ‘anarchist jurisdictions’ from coronavirus safety grant - The Washington Post

...David Bragdon, of the advocacy group TransitCenter, said Chao's "willingness to expose innocent transit riders and essential transit workers to greater risk of covid-19 just because of Donald Trump's unrelated personal vendetta against certain local elected officials is both reckless and un-American."...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2020/10/15/anarchist-jurisdictions-denied-covid-grant-money/

Federal Funding for Hookers for Jesus?

FFRF is insisting that the U.S. Department of Justice rescind a half-a-million-dollar unconstitutional grant to a proselytizing group called "Hookers For Jesus."
https://youtu.be/hN3I0hgvSEg

Elizabeth Warren wants to level the playing field for entrepreneurs of color - Vox

Warren's newest plan would provide $7 billion in grants to minority-owned businesses.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/6/15/18680364/elizabeth-warren-plan-7-billion-entrepreneurs-color-2020-presidential-race

Mitch McConnell's buddies showered with grant money and special treatment -- thanks to wife Elaine Chao - Raw Story

An aide to Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao helped direct grant money and other benefits to Kentucky, which her husband Mitch McConnell represents in the U.S. Senate. ....
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/06/mitch-mcconnells-buddies-showered-with-grant-money-and-special-treatment-thanks-to-wife-elaine-chao/

Chao created special path for McConnell’s favored projects - POLITICO

A top Transportation official helped coordinate grant applications by McConnell's political allies.
https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/10/mcconnell-elaine-chao-1358068