Kaitlin Collins Stuns GOP Senator With Fact Check On Funding Cut to His State

Kaitlin Collins Stuns GOP Senator With Fact Check On Major Funding Cut to His State

Alex Griffing Oct 15th, 2025, 6:15 pm

CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins briefly stunned Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy (R-MT) this week when she asked him about the Trump administration cancelling a billion-dollar energy project impacting his state. Sheehy initially blamed the shutdown, only to learn from Collins that the cut was a Trump administration initiative “months in the making.”

Collins asked Sheehy on Tuesday night, “The Department of Energy just canceled a billion dollars to the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub. Part of that covers your state of Montana, and your governor actually praised it when it was happening, saying it was going to create good-paying Montana jobs and boost American-made energy.