WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 -- Sen. Chris Murphy issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) joined 37 Democratic Senators in a letter to U.S. Department of Energy Secretary, Chris Wright, and Office of Management and Budget Director, Russell Vought, demanding the Trump administration restore funding for 223 congressionally authorized and appropriated energy projects unilaterally canceled by the White House in October 2025. Murphy and Blumenthal's letter comes in the wake of the Trump administration's shocking public admission that many of these energy grants were canceled solely because the projects were in states that did not vote for President Trump in the 2024 election.
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