Posted on 08/30/2025 2:14:40 AM PDT by Libloather
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Friday that $679 million in federal funding has been withdrawn for 12 “doomed” offshore wind projects – including three in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.
The scrapped funding includes $10.5 million for Connecticut’s Bridgeport Port Authority Operations and Maintenance Wind Port project, $20.5 million for New Jersey’s Wind Port at Paulsboro and $48 million for Staten Island’s Arthur Kill Terminal.
The Trump administration plans to spend the withdrawn funds on “real infrastructure” and “restoring American maritime dominance.”
“Wasteful, wind projects are using resources that could otherwise go towards revitalizing America’s maritime industry,” Duffy said in a statement.
The transportation secretary went on to slam his predecessor at the agency and the previous president for directing taxpayer dollars to projects “that cost much and offer little.”
“Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg bent over backwards to use transportation dollars for their Green New Scam agenda while ignoring the dire needs of our shipbuilding industry,” Duffy said. “Thanks to President Trump, we are prioritizing real infrastructure improvements over fantasy wind projects.”
At a White House Cabinet meeting earlier this week, President Trump fumed that wind projects were “ruining our country.”
“We’re not allowing any windmills to go up,” the president said. “They’re ruining our country. They’re ugly, they don’t work, they kill your birds. They’re bad for the environment.”
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I voted for this.
You cannot power modern civilization with wind, solar, and unicorn flatulence.
The “Green New Deal” was a communist scheme to raid the Treasury.
Uh-oh...better invest in sandbags to save the soon to be sinking cities!
/s
The Trump administration isn’t permitted to actually DO anything, dontcha know…
And for offshore projects the whales and other sea creatures and boaters are happy too.
(Off-topic, has anyone heard of what happened to Evita Duffy, Sean Duffy’s daughter who did a warmup podcast for Dan Bongino every day? She disappeared without a trace or comment a couple months ago.)
ITGRC, prep work such as pile driving into the sea floor, which is proving insanely catastrophic for the environment (including all manner of fauna/fisheries) has already commenced at the New Jersey site/sites, much to the dismay of many.
This could be great news. Another 90-10 or 80-20 issue.
Don’t cry for her, q.
I thought I saw her on Real America’s Voice. HOORAY Sean Duffy!
Then, Governor Murphy couldn't even get the full $300 million forfeiture guarantee from Orsted as the 2 parties settled on $125 mil, so NJ lost another potential $175 mil on this boondoggle.
Thank you for the tip, no doubt she walked away for some reason unknown without a trace. Have doubted all along she was mad at Bongino for not passing her the torch.
The New Green Deal is Carl Marx’s Old Red Deal.
BTTT
Save the whales.
Revoking the funds should move the date up, right?
Only if the socialist bartender sez so. That is her prediction for the ENTIRE planet. I hear she’s in the running for president. The clock keeps ticking...
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