It's also particularly ironic, since red states were much bigger beneficiaries of Biden-era grants. Vought targeted only four of those 10 for rescission, leaving tens of billions of "Green New Scam" dollars in red states. "Using non-adjusted and population-weighted numbers, the federal government provides 8 percent more in benefits to red states than to blue states," according to a May 2025 article from the Milken Institute Review. "But taking [cost-of-living adjustments] into consideration, this gap widens significantly: red states receive 23 percent more from the federal government than blue states." Now that those states handed Trump the election, he's apparently content to let them keep that cash.