Rep. Kim Schrier Criticizes Trump Administration's 'Reckless' Energy Policies

Rising Energy Costs and Economic Impact

• 💡 Families across the country are struggling with rising costs for groceries, healthcare, and especially utility bills.
• 📈 In Washington state, average electricity rates have increased by nearly 17% since President Trump took office.
• ⚠️ This rise in prices is attributed to the harmful and reckless policies of the current administration and Republicans in Congress.

Impact on Clean Energy Investments

• 🚫 Billions of dollars in investments for Washington state have been canceled, including a hydrogen hub that would have expanded research and development.
• 📉 This cancellation would have bolstered American energy dominance and created nearly 10,000 jobs.
• 🔌 The administration has created chaos at critical agencies like the Bonavville Power Administration and gutted clean energy investments meant to lower utility bills.

Call for Real Solutions

• 🎯 Jobs, innovation, and clean energy projects are down, while energy prices are up under Republican leadership.
• ✅ Constituents deserve real solutions that lower costs and improve their lives, not empty promises.
• ⚡ The most valuable action in the energy sector is to roll out more low-cost clean energy, not hinder it.
• 🛠️ There is an opportunity for meaningful reforms to cut red tape, accelerate the buildout of affordable energy, improve the grid with more power lines, and secure critical infrastructure supply chains.
• 🗣️ The bill being voted on does none of these things, and colleagues are urged to oppose it and engage in good-faith bipartisan discussions.