"Trump administration officials frustrated Interior Department career staff by impeding certain grant decisions involving several agencies, auditors found in a review of the department’s wide-ranging grant programs.
While giving Interior largely passing grades for its handling of some $4 billion worth of grants issued between fiscal 2019 through fiscal 2021, the Government Accountability Office identified several recurring problems attributed to the Trump-era political shop.
In one case, for instance, U.S. Geological Survey staff told the GAO auditors that in fiscal 2018 an unnamed Trump administration senior adviser “failed to make” an award decision on one application, which involved research by a university on the impacts of climate change."
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