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Swede

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Sun Dec 7, 2025, 11:57 PM Sunday

Trump pulled the plug on Biden's funds for Appalachia. FAFO [View all]

We are in the midst of the longest, saddest, most excruciating and unsatisfying “I TOLD YOU SO” in the history of the world.

For a brief moment, community organizers in Appalachia thought they were witnessing a once-in-a-generation lifeline. Billions of dollars from the Biden administration had been earmarked in 2022 to help former coal towns rebuild their economies, create new jobs and prepare for flooding, blackouts and other mounting environmental risks. But on his first day back in office, Donald Trump eliminated nearly all of those clean-energy and environmental programs, dismissing them as “woke” liberal scams — a decision now hitting hardest in the same deep-red counties that delivered him some of his biggest margins.

https://wtfdetective.blog/trump-pulled-the-plug-on-bidens-funds-for-appalachia-and-the-same-maga-towns-he-gutted-are-freaking-out/

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