Media Matters searched for Fox News coverage of the Trump administration withholding vital funding from blue states and found no mention of either the recent Politico or New York Times reporting in the network’s transcripts.

A July 29 Politico report showed that Trump denied disaster requests from Democratic-led states following a historic blizzard. Emails and documents revealed that the Trump administration denied requests from New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island despite the fact that “regional offices of the Federal Emergency Management Agency and NOAA determined that the states met government thresholds for receiving aid.” Additionally, the president “also denied a request by New York after administration officials verified that it had met federal standards for approval, according to state officials.” Politico also noted that there appears to be a trend of Trump denying disaster relief to blue states, as he “has rejected disaster aid for Democratic-run states at the highest rate in the 47-year history of” FEMA. Meanwhile, in the same period, Trump “approved nearly 90 percent of requests from states that are governed by members of his own party.” 

On July 24, The New York Times reported that the Trump administration admitted to cancelling grants worth “billions of dollars in funding for energy projects to states ‘based solely’ on whether they backed President Trump in the 2024 election.” Court documents filed by the Department of Energy show that the Trump administration terminated 284 “Biden-era federal grants for clean energy projects” worth more than $7.5 billion last October. All but one of those 284 grants were supposed to go to states that voted for “Kamala Harris in the 2024 election” and have "two Democratic-caucusing senators.” The documents also show that states that voted for Trump in 2024 and were represented by Republicans kept their grants. 
 

Media Matters searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original programming on Fox News Channel for any of the terms “Trump,” “president,” “administration,” “DOE,” “Department of Energy,” or “Energy Department” or any derivations of the root “fed” within close proximity of any derivations of the roots “grant,” “fund,” or “spend” and also within close proximity of any of the terms “California,” “Oregon,” “Colorado,” “energy,” “clean,” “green,” “eco,” “EV,” or “renewable” from July 24, 2026, when The New York Times reported that court documents from July acknowledged that federal agencies terminated funding for projects in Democratic-led states on political grounds, through August 3, 2026.

We also searched transcripts in the SnapStream video database for all original programming on Fox News Channel for any of the terms “Trump,” “president,” “administration,” “FEMA,” “Federal Emergency Management Agency,” “NOAA,” or “National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration” or any derivations of the root “fed” within close proximity of any of the terms “New York,” “New Jersey,” “Rhode Island,” “Massachusetts,” “disaster,” “aid,” or “relief” from July 29, 2026, when Politico reported that President Donald Trump overrode federal agencies to deny disaster relief requests from Democratic-led states, through August 3, 2026.

We timed segments, which we defined as instances when either the news that federal officials cancelled funding for projects in Democratic-led states on political grounds or that Trump overruled federal agencies to deny disaster relief requests from Democratic-led states was the stated topic of discussion or when we found significant discussion of either story. We defined significant discussion as instances when two or more speakers in a multitopic segment discussed either story with one another.

We also timed mentions, which we defined as instances when a single speaker in a segment on another topic mentioned either story without another speaker engaging with the comment, and teasers, which we defined as instances when the anchor or host promoted a segment about either story scheduled to air later in the broadcast.