Senate Republicans on Wednesday rejected their Democratic colleagues’ effort to overturn President Trump’s decisionenergy emergency declaration,
The proposal was unlikely to ever become law, but it came as a messaging tool for Democrats who oppose the Trump administration’s energy agenda, which includes largely promoting fossil fuel and nuclear power while blocking renewable energy.
“President Trump told big oil donors that if they cut a $1 billion check to his campaign, he’d give them everything they wanted on the first day of his presidency. Then, within hours of his inauguration, he declared a sham ‘energy emergency’ to put his thumb on the scale of those donors and disrupt other affordable energy sources,” Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said in a written statement, referring to Trump’s request that the industry Give $1 billion to his campaign And there is a report that he Told them it would be a “deal” making it happen.
He said, “It turns out that Trump himself is the energy emergency – energy prices are skyrocketing and hundreds of thousands of good-paying clean energy jobs are at grave risk because of the federal funding he took away.”
The White House criticized the Democrats’ effort.
“President Trump is restoring American energy dominance to promote economic prosperity and lower costs for all Americans. Only radical Democrats can oppose this simple policy effort,” spokeswoman Liz Huston said in an email.
On his first day in office, Trump declared a national emergency regarding energy in an effort to unlock additional equipment to rapidly ramp up energy production.
Since that time, he has sought to use emergency powersMore power stations approvedFor artificial intelligence,Accelerating fossil fuel and mining operations on public landsAndAccelerate hundreds of projects,
However, the administration has also taken stepsBarriers to renewable energy development,
