Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09), ranking of the subcommittee of the house credits on energy and water development, and senator Patty Murray (D-WA), vice-chairman of the Senate Credit Committee and ranking of the subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, Gao) early the accountability To make a legal decision About whether President Trump’s Dept. Whether Energy (DIY) has violated the most important credit laws in shifting hundreds of millions of dollars for research and development of clean energy sources in the Full -Year Continuing Resolution (CR) President Trump signed in March in March in March and sent those funds to energy sources that in favor.
In particular, Kaptur and Murray have asked to investigate GAO whether DOG’s edition decisions in the tax year 2025 violates the target statute, which dictates that credits are only used for the purposes for which the credits were granted unless the legal bill and the antideeficiency, which is a federal agencies, to give a federal agency Savement.
According to recent analysis and internal reporting, the Expenditure on the Ministry of Energy will probably result in the dismissals of more than 3,000 national lab scientists and staff and more than 50 university prices, more than 30 industrial prizes, more than 20 non-profit awards and various local government prices.
When submitting the request, congress member Kaptur and Senator Murray said in a statement:
“When shifting these funds, President Trump not only increases the energy bills of working families and undermines the American energy independence. Discount of these energy sources of the future hands an advantage for our global rivals are being lifted. Financing levels signed in the law by President Trump himself. “
In the tax year 2024, the $ 137 million congress provided for the energy department to support wind energy initiatives and provided $ 318 million to support solar energy. The Fiscal Year 2025 CR Full-Year CR that Huis wrote Republicans and signed President Trump in the law, continued this tax year 2024 financing levels. But in an expenditure plan made public earlier this month, the Trump administration revealed that the hundreds of millions of dollars that have been designated by the congress to support wind and solar energy with other, favorable industries – endangering critical progress and ceding land on important energy solutions of the future – alongside other harmful spacing. Instead of financing wind energy initiatives at $ 137 million, the administration finances them at $ 29.8 million (a reduction of 78%), and instead of financing solar initiatives at $ 318 million, it finances them at $ 41.9 million (a cut of 87%).
News item from the office of congressman Marcy Kaptur
