Trump administration officials admitted in court that they canceled hundreds of federal grants simply because they benefited states Kamala Harris won in 2024. 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. Elizabeth Frantz/REUTERSNone of the grants were canceled “based on any programmatic, statutory, cost-reduction or performance-based factor,” the lawyer added. “The corrupt Trump administration has just admitted to withholding taxpayer dollars from states based on how they voted,” he wrote. The Energy Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment from the Daily Beast, nor did the White House.