92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
Data source:
doge.gov/savings " cancelled federal grants and contracts
USAspending.gov " contract/grant recipient info
github.com & github.com " county-level election data
Tools: Matlab
Methodology: see bsky.app
I retrieved all publicly available cancellations from DOGE on 3/22, which according to DOGE is a subset of all cancellations.
I then cross-referenced them to official spending data on USAspending using links provided by DOGE and ended up with 5,137 and 4,679 contracts and grants with rich metadata.
These metadata include total dollar amounts obligated, dates, and information on contract/grant recipients (address, county, congressional district, etc).
More: I extracted county info (FIPS code) and cross-referenced them to county-level presidential election data from 2024.
For each contract/grant, I found Trump's popular vote margin over Harris in the recipient county.
I plotted every cancellation in red, with total dollar amount obligated on the y axis against Trump-over-Harris margin on x.
There's a bias for more cancellations in Harris counties. But does this reflect true bias or simply more contracts/grants awarded to Harris counties?
To answer this, I need a good background/control set. I compiled all contracts/grants from FY2021-2025 on USAspending, totaling ~19M/24M. ~99% of all cancelled contracts/grants were from this period.
Clearly, the background/control sets (plotted in gray) are distributed across the Trump-Harris spectrum, but the cancellations are biased towards Harris counties.
Potential caveat: DOGE doesn't specify how it chose certain contract/grant cancellations to disclose. They claim the ones disclosed represent "~30% of total savings". It is therefore possible that they made cancellations unbiasedly across the Trump-Harris political spectrum but preferentially disclosed ones to Harris counties for publicity purposes.
GOP gets 85% of the benefit of climate law. Some still hate it. (August 2024)
floodlightnews.org
... A new tally shows the overwhelming number of jobs and projects funded by the Inflation Reduction Act go to conservative states that back Trump.[emphasis mine]
"What the Inflation Reduction Act allows us now to do is for everyday people to start to take advantage of this technology," said Othow, a longtime lawyer in North Carolina's solar industry and the president of Black Owners of Solar Services.
The IRA is the Biden Administration's signature climate law. The historic act is the most aggressive climate policy in U.S. history, rolling out billions in tax breaks and other incentives with the goal of cutting economy-wide carbon emissions 40% by 2030.
Every congressional Republican voted against the bill, arguing it was nothing more than handouts to prop up climate and social justice programs. Some on the extreme right continue to argue that climate change is a hoax. But now some GOP House members who voted against the IRA are urging their leader to consider saving key portions of it.
IRA creates economic revolution'
In fact, it is the red states that overwhelmingly have benefitted from the federal government's infusion of clean energy money, according to a report released today by E2, a national nonpartisan group of more than 10,000 business leaders that advocates for a cleaner economy and environment.
Friday marks two years since Biden inked his signature on the IRA. Companies have announced roughly 330 clean energy and vehicle projects since that time, efforts that could create 109,278 jobs and bring in a whopping $126 billion in private investments, if completed, according to the E2 report.
E2's report breaks down IRA-boosted projects by state, sector and industry as well as by congressional district. It found that "nearly 60% of the announced projects " representing 85% of the investments and 68% of the jobs " are in Republican congressional districts." ...
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