Partisan considerations played a role in decisions to cut federal energy grants during a government shutdown, the Trump administration acknowledged in a court filing this week, a move that legal experts say marks a notable shift from longstanding norms governing federal agency conduct, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
Government lawyers also wrote in the court filing that “consideration of partisan politics is constitutionally permissible, including because it can serve as a proxy for legitimate policy considerations.”
The filing marked the first time the government had acknowledged in the court documents that politics was a factor, according to the Post.
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