Of President Donald Trump’s political detractors, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) remains one of the most contentious and diametrically opposed to the president.

While their disagreements are often verbal, just days ago, Trump took a huge step to cancel one of Newsom’s projects, as Breitbart News reported.

Trump canceled $679 million in federal funding for 12 offshore wind projects, the bulk of which included $427 million for a California alternative energy project.

Some believe this was to intentionally undermine the wind energy industry, which was a major part of former President Joe Biden’s administration, and some believe it’s just part of the presidential plan for energy dominance.

Cancelation details

U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the money allocated to the projects under the Biden administration amounts to a waste of funds.

Duffy said, when explaining the change, that the money “could otherwise go towards revitalizing America's maritime industry,” something the Trump administration has felt strongly about.

Duffy’s department, prior to his appointment, awarded the $427 million to construct a new marine terminal that would support the construction and maintenance of offshore wind turbines in California.

Newsom’s response

Newsom was not pleased with the decision, as one might imagine, and a spokesperson for his office said that the decision was a demonstration of the current administration’s goals.

The spokesperson said that the Trump administration was "assaulting clean energy and infrastructure projects – hurting business and killing jobs in rural areas, and ceding our economic future to China."

Idaho farmer reacts to the Trump Admin cancelling a massive wind project planned for right next to his land:

"This has been what, 4 or 5 years now that we've just been fighting this? And it's just been a constant burden—so it is such a relief to have a favorable resolution." https://t.co/d9kCoOkajs pic.twitter.com/iAnk7vOJ29

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) August 14, 2025

Earlier cancellation

This news comes just days after the Trump administration canceled a 1,200-megawatt, 231-turbine wind energy project that would have been located on 57,000 acres of federal land in southern Idaho.

That project was one the Biden administration put into motion just six weeks before Biden left office, and despite the state legislature voting unanimously against the plan in 2023.

Criticisms of the project included concern that it would infringe on the Minidoka National Historic Site, which is in remembrance of the incarceration of thousands of Japanese-American citizens during World War II

Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum said at the time that, “We will no longer provide preferential treatment towards unreliable, intermittent power sources that harm rural communities, livelihoods and the land.”