Missouri Sen. Hawley calls on Trump Administration to cancel nearly $5B loan for Grain Belt Express

Missouri U.S. Senator Josh Hawley wants the Trump Administration to cancel a nearly 5-billion-dollar loan approved for the Grain Belt Express. 

The proposed powerline would stretch across northern Missouri, transporting electricity generated by wind turbines in Kansas eastward to Indiana. 

Hawley strongly opposes the project:

“There’s no way we ought to be spending $5 billion of taxpayer money on a huge giveaway to a corporation that has already seized land from Missouri farmers without appropriate compensation. This is a Green New Deal boondoggle.”

The loan was guaranteed by the Biden Administration in late November just weeks after Donald Trump was re-elected president. 

Grain Belt Express spokesperson Martin Grego says the state approved Grain Belt Express finding that it could save Missouri energy consumers as much as 18-billion dollars, including contractual energy-cost savings for 39 municipal utilities.