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But after criticism from lawmaker and customer , the Trump administration has rehired at least some of those employees , according to areportin E&E News .
The four power marketing brass sell and transmit hydropower from a stove of federally owned dam , including the Bonneville Dam in the Pacific Northwest and the Hoover Dam in the Southwest . These dams — and the authority that manage the sale and distribution of the force they grow — supply electrical energy totens of trillion of homesacross 34 res publica .
The federal agency are fund through the sale of that electricity and do n’t rely on money from the U.S. Treasury .
