I don't know the specific reasons, but the general issue isn't too hard to guess - obviously bad timing it seems. The prototype airframes were finished in August of 1945.
Despite prop planes were still used in the Korean War few years later, overall as a whole prop driven planes were more or less dead-end technology. The jet-era has started.
Besides, unlike Germany, the US knew they were gonna win the war with the resources they already had. So, if I were in their shoes, why'd I waste money on developing another prop-driven plane, when the future of warfare was clearly with the jets? I'd cancel all experimental props and push the budget to jet research.