Republican Energy and Water Development Funding Bill Increases Energy Costs for Families and Eliminates Good-Paying Jobs

**CUTS FACT SHEET** House Republicans Cripple the Clean Energy Economy

Bill jeopardizes energy security and fails to confront the climate crisis.

WASHINGTON — House Appropriations Committee Republicans today released the draft fiscal year 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill, which will be considered in subcommittee tomorrow. The bill raises costs for American households, undermines infrastructure investments, and weakens our national security.

For 2025, the Energy and Water bill provides $59 billion. Within that amount, the bill provides $25 billion for nondefense programs, a cut of over $1.4 billion, or 5.4 percent, below the fiscal year 2024 enacted level, and $34 billion for defense programs, an increase of $906 million, or 2.7 percent, above the fiscal year 2024 enacted level, creating a further disparity between domestic and defense programs. The legislation:

• Increases energy costs and jeopardizes energy security by cutting the Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs by $1.5 billion or 43 percent.
• Hurts United States’ competitiveness, fails to confront the climate crisis, and eliminates good-paying jobs by revoking $8 billion from the Department of Energy's Loans Programs, an increasingly successful set of programs that promote climate-friendly innovation and American manufacturing.
• Targets disadvantaged communities by slashing the Weatherization Assistance Program which will drive up the cost of home energy bills for approximately 54,000 low-income homes and by prohibiting funding related to the Department of Energy’s Justice40 initiative.

“The Department of Energy has proven it can help to drive down the costs of clean energy technologies and reduce every day energy costs to the benefit of consumers. This creates good-paying jobs for hardworking men and women across our country and uplifts families struggling with the high costs of energy,” Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee Ranking Member Marcy Kaptur (D-OH-09) said. “Sadly, the Republicans’ Energy and Water bill does not meet our nation’s imperative for the future — to become energy independent in perpetuity. This bill’s extreme budget cuts jeopardize American energy independence, will result in rising costs for consumers, and hobble US competitiveness by slashing emerging energy investment. Cutting investments in American innovation that are charting a course to a new energy future will only increase our dependence on foreign energy sources from around the globe.”

“House Republicans 2025 Energy and Water funding bill cuts domestic energy investments, increasing energy costs for American families as they continue to struggle with the high cost of living,” Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) said. “This bill undermines the growth and modernization of our energy infrastructure, weakens our national security, and would yield leadership of the world’s energy future to our greatest adversaries. This extreme proposal furthers Republicans’ constant attempts to cut programs that help hardworking families and confront the climate crisis. Instead of working with Democrats to lower prices and invest in technology that promotes our energy security, House Republicans are proposing a bill that raises energy costs for those struggling to make ends meet and eliminates good-paying jobs.”

A summary of House Republicans’ 2025 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies funding bill is here. A fact sheet is here. Additional information on how this bill cripples the clean energy economy is here. The text of the bill is here. The subcommittee markup will be webcast live and linked on the House Committee on Appropriations website.

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