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Rescind unspent grid and demonstration funding

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, chapter 12, p. 381. Written by Bernard L. McNamee.

Rescind unspent grid and demonstration funding

The document says “should”Who acts: CongressHow: legislationp. 381 in the PDF
What the document says

“Congress should rescind any money not already spent.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 381

The chapter notes that the Grid Deployment Office oversees nearly $20 billion in new appropriations from the infrastructure act, including grid modernization grants, the transmission facilitation program and the civil nuclear credit program. It asks that grants properly focused on grid reliability and security be reassigned to the reformed cyber and energy security office.

What the document actually says

“Congress should rescind any money not already spent.”

Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 381
That sentence, in plain words

Congress should take back any money not yet spent.

What this is about

Congress gave this office about $20 billion. Much of it is not spent yet. The book says Congress should take it back.

Read against the documents indexed here on August 26, 2026, and nothing was found that answers this. The Rescissions Act of 2025, enacted July 24, 2025, cancels unobligated balances, which is the mechanism the chapter asks for, but the accounts it names are foreign assistance and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It touches no Energy Department account. Nothing indexed rescinds the unspent grid modernization, transmission facilitation or civil nuclear credit money from the infrastructure act, or reassigns any of it to a cyber and energy security office. That is a record of a search, not a finding that nothing has happened: an act this site does not hold, or one that answers the proposal in words unlike its own, would not be caught by it.

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    Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, edited by Paul Dans and Steven Groves (The Heritage Foundation, 2023), p. 381.
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    “Rescind unspent grid and demonstration funding,” Project 2025, chapter 12, p. 381. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/project-2025/proposal/ch12-rescind-unspent-grid-money/ (retrieved October 7, 2026).

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