DULUTH — The Trump administration is terminating a $50 million grant to modernize a Minnesota Power transmission line linking North Dakota and Hermantown, Minnesota. Construction on the $940 million project is already underway.

The grant, awarded under the Biden administration and funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, was included on a list of grants the Department of Energy intends to terminate. The list was obtained by Politico and other news organizations Thursday, Oct. 2, and follows a Wednesday announcement by DOE that said the agency would terminate 321 financial awards worth $7.56 billion.

The grants support a total of 223 projects, but DOE did not respond to a News Tribune request for a list of affected Minnesota grants.

Also on Wednesday, Russ Vought, Trump

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