Trump proposes slashing DOE budget by $19.3B

The White House’s 2026 budget proposal, released Friday, seeks to cut $19.3 billion from the Department of Energy’s budget by making deep reductions to Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding and the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. 

Compared to 2025 enacted funding levels, the budget proposal cuts around $15.2 billion of DOE’s IIJA funding, $2.6 billion from its Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, $1.1 billion from its Office of Science, and $389 million from the Office of Environmental Management.

The IIJA cuts would cancel “Green New Scam funds committed to build unreliable renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other costly technologies burdensome to ratepayers and consumers,” the budget proposal says, and “[end] taxpayer handouts to electric vehicle and battery makers,” along with canceling the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.

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