The Trump administration’s proposed budget for the Department of Energy (DOE) cuts $19.3 billion in dedicated funding for Biden-era “green energy” initiatives.
Without that bump, the remainder of the proposed Department of Energy budget trims spending by 18.2 percent, cutting $15.2 billion in allocations from the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, $2.6 billion from its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, $1.1 billion from its Office of Science, and $389 million from its Office of Environmental Management.
“President Trump is committed to balancing the budget and implementing fiscal restraint, focusing agency funding on the crucial goal of unleashing American energy dominance,” Subcommittee Chair Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) said.
“This is a commitment I share and a duty I intend to fulfill.”
Fleischmann said the administration’s budget refocuses policy on production rather than mitigating climate-related impacts and gears resources into expanding the nation’s electrical grid to accommodate increasing demand spurred by data center development, artificial intelligence computing, and bitcoin “mining.”
Fleischmann praised the administration for ending former President Joe Biden’s pause on liquified natural gas exports, for its deregulatory actions, and for opening federal lands and waters to more fossil fuel development.
Fleischmann also said that lawmakers “still are awaiting the full details of the president’s fiscal 2026 budget request.”