WASHINGTON, July 30 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:

The letter follows an admission from the Trump administration that the decision to cancel energy project grants in states that did not vote for Trump was "based solely" on politics

"It is an attack on the rule of law and the basic democratic principle that the federal government serves the entire country-not merely those who support the President."

Washington, DC -U.S. SenatorsLisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons (bothD-Del)joinedSenators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Vice Chair of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, and 35of theirDemocraticcolleaguesin...