Toxic war breaks out between Trump White House and Cabinet head: report
Source: msn
Story by Tom Boggioni • 5h •
An internecine war has broken out between Donald Trump’s White House and one Cabinet head over budget cuts that led one official to admit in a text, “It’s toxic af over there. The boys are fighting.”
According to a report from Politico’s Sophia Cai and Ben Lefebvre, there is battle over spending cuts proposed by Department of Energy chief Chris Wright and Trump officials centering on his plan to hack away up to $30 billion in federal clean energy grants left over from President Joe Biden’s tenure.
At issue was Wright’s rush to propose cuts when the White House wanted to pick and choose which ones survived to “be used as bargaining chips with Congress and states.”
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“Some of the people disagreed on the exact source of the tension with Wright, a former Colorado-based fracking executive who has been aggressive this year in championing Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel agenda in foreign capitals. But the six [insiders] agreed that the proposal to yank funding for hundreds of solar, wind, carbon capture, hydrogen and auto industry projects has been complicated by tense relationships among Wright, the White House and other political appointees at DOE headquarters,” Politico is reporting................
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