When the Trump administration canceled more than $7.5 billion in Biden-era federal grants for clean energy projects in October, it framed the move as an urgent corrective to protect taxpayer funds from waste. But it wasn’t true. Federal officials acknowledged this month that they had terminated the funding “based solely” on political criteria, targeting projects only in states that were represented by Democrats and had voted for Kamala Harris, the party’s presidential nominee, in the 2024 election.