“Secretary Wright repeatedly denied that $7.5 billion dollars of DOE awards cancelled by the Trump administration in October 2025 were in retaliation against states that leaned Democratic in the 2024 presidential election (Blue States). DOE’s lawyers also stipulated “that the differential treatment resulting in the October 2025 termination of Blue State grants and the non-termination of non-Blue State grants was not based on a rational connection between the recipient’s location and/or place of performance and DOE’s past or current agency priorities.” — goes back to the earliest days of the second Trump administration. A major recipient, Climate United, in April sought access to the funds and then sued EPA when the bank declined. Whether the charges that Wright lied to Congress or that EPA erred in withholding funds will eventually stand is unclear.