House Republicans Vote to Raise Energy Costs and Weaken National Security in Extreme Energy and Water Funding Bill

**STATE-BY-STATE FACT SHEET** Republicans Slash Vital Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Funding for States

WASHINGTON — Today, the House passed Republicans’ harmful 2026 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill that increases costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our national security.

The bill:

• Increases energy costs, jeopardizes energy independence, and hurts United States’ competitiveness by slashing the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs nearly in half, revoking more than $5 billion from the Department of Energy’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law resources, and eliminating funding for the Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations.
• Weakens national security and leaves Americans more vulnerable to nuclear threats by cutting the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation account by 17 percent.
• Abandons commitments to communities to clean up radioactive waste by eliminating funding for the Corps of Engineers’ Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program and cutting the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management by 9 percent.

“Sadly, this Republican Energy and Water bill did not have bipartisan input, and misses the mark to set the course for our nation’s future in the new age frontiers of energy and water,” Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Marcy Kaptur (OH-09) said. “While energy prices are up 10% nationwide since January, and some families from my region have seen their monthly bills more than double, this bill cedes American leadership in the global energy race to our adversaries including the Chinese Communist Party. It weakens vital nuclear nonproliferation programs that help keep our country and world safe. By turning their backs on communities suffering from the long lasting impact of our early atomic weapons programs, Republicans show the callous disregard they have for America’s forgotten communities. We need to invest in energy independence in perpetuity — and if this bill becomes law, we will live to regret it, as our children and grandchildren inherit a future devoid of opportunity. The passage of this ill-considered and careless bill hurts our communities from coast to coast, and is a true disservice for future generations to come.”

Watch Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur’s floor remarks here.  

“Instead of working with Democrats to lower the cost of living and consider funding bills that have a chance of becoming law, House Republicans just wasted another week on a bill that raises energy costs, threatens our national security, and does nothing to address the looming government funding deadline,” Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) said. “By slashing the budget for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy nearly in half, House Republicans are attacking the programs that help working families, create good-paying jobs in our communities, and keep America competitive. Republicans’ funding bill undermines the very programs that stop the spread of nuclear weapons, detect nuclear activity, and uphold arms control efforts that make America and the world safer – and it underfunds efforts to clean up sites contaminated by our nation’s early atomic energy program. All of this after Republicans passed the Big Ugly Bill, a law that gives massive tax breaks to billionaires and the biggest corporations while driving up home energy bills for families by as much as 30 percent. I hope this is the last partisan funding bill Republicans force the House to consider. It is time for them to abandon this charade and join Democrats in finding a path forward.”

Congresswoman DeLauro’s statement submitted for the record can be found here.

A summary of the bill can be found here. A fact sheet is here. 

The text and accompanying report of the legislation, before action on the House Floor, are available here.

A state-by-state breakdown of the amount of funding House Republicans are slashing from the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) programs is here. 

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