Keep Your Hands in Your Own Pockets

$7.56 billion. 321 grants. One federal judge. And a big question: who should be spending your money? 

In this episode of Created to Reign, Dr. E. Calvin Beisner breaks down the Department of Energy’s attempt to cancel billions in clean-energy and climate grants—and why a federal court just forced those projects back onto the taxpayer’s tab. Were the terminations a long-overdue effort to stop wasteful spending? Or a politically clumsy move that handed the courts an easy win? 

We unpack the legal ruling, the politics behind the grants, and the uncomfortable reality of government picking winners and losers with other people’s money. Along the way, Dr. Beisner asks the harder question Washington never wants to answer: Why is the federal government in this business at all? 

If you care about energy realism, fiscal sanity, and the growing habit of reaching into your pocket to fund someone else’s pet project—this episode is for you.

Show notes: 

https://www.energy.gov/articles/secretary-wright-announces-new-policy-increasing-accountability-identifying-wasteful

https://www.energy.gov/articles/energy-department-announces-termination-223-projects-saving-over-75-billion

https://news.oilandgaswatch.org/post/trump-cancels-billions-in-clean-energy-grants-while-increasing-subsidies-for-oil-and-gas

https://whyy.org/articles/delaware-new-jersey-clean-energy-projects-funding-cuts/

file://C:\\Users\ECalvinBeisner\Downloads\Mehta decision.pdf

https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/judge-says-trump-admin-illegally-cut-billions-in-grants-from-blue-states-climate-projects-5969995

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