Josh Shapiro says Trump Administration has Pa. Federal Financing published

All frozen federal funds in Pennsylvania are again accessible, said governor Josh Shapiro on Monday.

Shapiro said that President Donald Trump's government published more than 2.1 billion US dollars of frozen or temporary attitudes of federal funds, most of which were for environmental and energy projects.

The democratic governor sued the Trump administration at the beginning of this month due to an unconstitutional freezing of more than $ 2 billion in funds that have already been approved by the congress to go to Pennsylvania and have plugged, abandoned oil and gas wells, which among other things Immerse yourself in the communities in Pennsylvania.

“These agreements are binding,” said Shapiro. “Just said, a deal is a deal. The Trump government is legally obliged to provide these means of Pennsylvania. That is why I started legal steps to protect the Pennsylvanians. “

Shapiro claimed that these funds were now released because of his legal office in the White House this weekend and his legal challenge. Some environmental funds flowed back to school districts across the country last week. This was the first sign that the funds could be released soon.

Shapiro said he spoke directly to Trump cabinet officials at an event of the White House after he was coordinating partnerships between states and military response to the Council of Governors, a little-known party committee of 10 state managers.

“I asked her to follow the law and honor her agreements with Pennsylvania,” Shapiro said about his conversations with Trump -Kabinetts official, but rejected it in detail. “I can tell you that I was very direct with you, you reacted to me, and as a result, Pennsylvania now has what we are properly owed.”

Shapiro originally decided unsuccessfully to complain after the efforts of the Pennsylvania congress delegation. Shapiro initially asked Pennsylvania's new attorney in General Dave Sunday, a Republican to sue the Trump government. Sunday declined, so Shapiro decided to sue in his capacity as governor of Pennsylvania.

Despite the publication of the federal funds, a spokesman for Shapiro said that the lawsuit would advance “until we receive a final judgment or a binding agreement according to which the Trump administration complies with its legal obligations.”

Among the $ 2.1 billion in projects that were observed by the financing was an initiative supported in the amount of almost $ 400 million, which is intended to support industrial plants in reducing their CO2 emissions. Industry is the nationwide sector with the highest emitted sector and, according to Dep, accounts for 30% of the state's greenhouse gas emissions.

The federal grant that supports the program is the second largest that Pennsylvania ever received. Others are a subsidy of $ 156 million for a solar barrier-free program to help householders with low incomes to lower their electricity bills and reduce carbon emissions, as well as an $ 186 million weather program for Low income residents to help them help their houses more energy -efficient and shape. Save energy costs.

Many of the funds became two of the cornerstone of the former President Joe Biden: Inflation Reduction Act, which an investment of $ 370 billion hundreds of billions of dollars for energy and environmental projects.

MP Elizabeth Fiedler (D., Philadelphia), the chairman of the new energy committee of the State House, described the release of federal funds as a “relief” on Monday and applauded Shapiros on this topic.

“The attempts by the Trump government to rule through executive regulations are both unconstitutional and a sign of weakness, and decisive financing is the most harmful to the workers,” added Fiedler.