Senate Energy Democrats

Trump is making electricity more expensive–not less. That’s because of something we’ll call the “Trump Tax”—a combination of tariffs, canceled clean energy investments, and cuts to energy affordability programs. Now his “big, beautiful bill” could make it even worse. 🧵

@SenCortezMasto: Please explain to me why, when we need wildland firefighters, we're scrapping programs that provide training, to both men and women, to be in this fight to help us address these fires that are happening across the West all the time now.

Lake Tahoe is a treasure, one that Republicans, Democrats, and independents have all come together over the years to protect. I'm proud to continue that tradition with my Nevada and California colleagues as we push for bipartisan funding for conservation and recreation at Tahoe.

Going to bed hungry and short on medical supplies… this is how the Trump Administration treats our wildland firefighters. reuters.com/business/envir…

This is a mess of the administration’s own making. They fire our public lands workers and then force firefighters to clean up the mess during peak wildfire season. Unbelievable.

Sen. Padilla: It may be residents of California or Utah or other states in between. These are all Americans. Communities in the United States of America that are at increased risk because of the actions of this administration, which contradict the supposed goals and objectives.

Sen. Cortez Masto: Why can't you learn from what has happened in the past?

Sen. Wyden: I'm not going to allow the mismanagement and the lack of really using resources effectively become an argument that somehow this mismanagement is the case for selling off our public lands.

The overwhelming majority of people in the West support protecting our public lands. We won against Republicans’ most recent attempt to sell them, and we’ll continue fighting against any future effort.

As U.S. demand for energy increases, Republican cuts to renewables will raise costs for working families and put energy workers out of a job.

By canceling projects for low-cost energy in Nevada, Donald Trump and Republicans have passed into law a $300 per month increase in Nevadans' power bills. All so billionaires can get a tax cut.

NOAA plays an incredibly important role in preserving life and property. So I don't agree with the Trump Administration proposal to cut NOAA programs. How do you preserve NOAA's core mission when we're cutting so much of the science budget? spokesman.com/stories/2025/j…

The Republican Budget Bill abandons the historic progress we made towards building a clean energy future and burdens Coloradans with higher energy costs as a result. I urge every Coloradan to take advantage of the clean energy tax credits before they expire as soon as this year.…

Sen. Hickenlooper: Coloradans, and I can't tell you how many tens of thousands of notices we have, do not want public lands put up for sale.

Out in the Cibola National Forest today, enjoying your public lands.

Robertson: I am not familiar with the Battery500 Consortium. Sen. Cantwell: Okay. So you're trying to get a job with this level of oversight on Energy Efficiency and Renewable. And this is probably one of the labs in the nation's biggest effort on bringing grid scale storage.

Robertson: There's not an oil and gas company that can move the amount of fluid and gas that we do without having an occasional spill. Heinrich: While these impacts are reality, they have very real impacts on my constituents. So the goal, as challenging as it is, should be zero.

The cuts to clean energy projects in the Republicans’ “Big Beautiful Bill” will put us so far behind the curve in American-led energy and raise electricity prices for working families. Lunacy.

Sen. Padilla: If we're going to address deferred maintenance, if you're going to modernize, if we're going to add capacity, if you're going to add efficiency and improve performance, these are all objectives that require investments, not cuts.

Sen. Heinrich: The reconciliation bill alone is estimated to increase annual energy costs more than $16 billion in 2030 and more than $33 billion by 2035. And American families will bear those increased costs.

WATCH LIVE: Committee hearing on U.S. Forest Service FY 2026 Budget Request. The purpose of the hearing is to examine the President’s budget request for the U.S. Forest Service for Fiscal Year 2026.