A hydrogen fuel research center in suburban Rochester, a heat-pump factory in Syracuse and a ground-glass company in Westchester County are among 25 entities across New York whose energy grants have been canceled by the Trump administration, officials said Wednesday.

The grants, totaling nearly $500 million statewide, were terminated as part of the ongoing federal shutdown. Details were released recently by a congressional committee.

Gov. Kathy Hochul decried the cuts, calling them short-sighted and damaging. She accused President Donald Trump of "playing politics with the government shutdown" and eliminating New York jobs.

Some of the entities won grants just recently to increase jobs, such as Bitzer Scroll in Syracuse, which had won $5 million for its heat-pump factory and had planne

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