Bummer: Trump’s Funding Freeze Is Causing Freakouts In Red States For Solar

Oh, please, stop, you’re just embarrassing yourselves at this point, Warmists

Solar has taken off in red states. Trump’s funding freeze is causing panic

Mike Mullett strains to see through sheets of misty rain while driving through working-class neighborhoods of Columbus, a quaint town in southern Indiana.

He’s trying to find the senior center, multi-family homes and rent-assisted properties – more than 530 in total – that he and many other locals hope will receive $4.42m in federal funding for solar electricity projects.

But now that money is at risk.

On 20 January, Donald Trump paused billions of dollars of federal grant funding for clean energy and other projects around the country initiated by the Biden administration’s Green New Deal.

“We’ve been slavishly working on a plan since April 2023 that would provide solar energy to hundreds of households in two low- and moderate-income Columbus neighborhoods,” says Mullett. The project was expected to be rolled out in April, with previously approved funding thought to have been made available by 14 February.

“Unless the Trump administration makes a 180-degree turn on funding, that expectation will obviously not be met.”

So, without massive amounts of taxpayer money they cannot do the project? Why is that? Is it because solar is just too damned expensive? Why would it take two years? If they wanted to install natural gas hookups, it would be easy peasy and a whole lot less expensive. I mean, the Warmists keep telling us that the cost of solar has plummeted, yet, it seems that without massive subsidies and payoffs few want to install it. Weird.

He says that if the federal funding is lost, private funding that has been committed to help pay for the project would be gone too.

“If the pending litigation in federal district courts must run its course all the way to the US supreme court, the delay in the rollout of the [funding] would certainly be measured in months, perhaps extending even into 2026,” he says.

OK, go for it. Get your private funding. But, really, give it time. Some portion of the funding has simply been frozen pending review, and, since it has already been appropriate a portion will come back. Once they make sure it is being used wisely and not fraudulently.

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