{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-markey-merkley-press-trump-on-failure-to-address-american-families-rising-electricity-costs", "Warren, Markey, Merkley Press Trump on Failure to Address American Families\u2019 Rising Electricity Costs", "2025-10-31", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "MA", "Elizabeth Warren", "W000817", "www.warren.senate.gov", "warren", "https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "Warren, Markey, Merkley Press Trump on Failure to Address American Families\u2019 Rising Electricity Costs\n\nInvestigation reveals Trump Administration \u201chas no explanations for its failures and no answers for American families that are hit hard by high energy costs.\u201d\n\nLawmakers publish new data showing electricity costs have increased 11% since Trump took office, costing families more than $70 billion in higher utilities bills over next three years\n\nText of Letter (PDF) | Response from USTR (PDF) | Response from HHS (PDF) | Response from Treasury (PDF)\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) led Senators Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) and Ed Markey (D-Mass.) in pressing President Donald Trump on rising electricity costs hurting American families. In a new letter, the lawmakers published the Trump Administration\u2019s responses to the Senators\u2019 earlier oversight on the Administration\u2019s failures to lower energy costs. The lawmakers also published new data revealing the impacts of those failures on American families, including the fact that since Trump took office, electricity costs have increased by 11% \u2014 costing American families more than $70 billion in higher utility bills over the next three years.\n\n\u201cYou promised that you would cut energy prices for American families. Instead, they are struggling more than ever under your watch,\u201d wrote the lawmakers. \u201cTo lower costs, your Administration should restore funding to thousands of energy projects slated to add much-needed supply to the grid, reverse costly fossil fuel plant mandates, and ensure the public continues to have access to the energy bill assistance they deserve.\u201d\n\nThe Trump administration\u2019s recent actions have exacerbated high energy prices for families, creating a massive cut in energy supply. The lawmakers published new data from the nonprofit Climate Power, revealing that the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to energy funding have cut off the energy supply needed to power more than 12 million homes. Recent data also revealed that Trump\u2019s energy funding cuts may cause the loss of more than 300,000 jobs and the cancellation of half of all energy projects planned in the U.S. this year, impacting the economy and jacking up prices for American families.\n\n\u201cAs a result of these and other actions, energy costs have forced millions of middle-class families into \u2018energy poverty,\u2019\u201d wrote the lawmakers. \u201cThis is the wrong approach, and you should reverse course and provide Americans with the help they need to reduce energy costs, instead of making this crisis worse.\u201d\n\nIn July, the lawmakers opened an investigation into the Trump administration\u2019s failure to address rising energy costs. The lawmakers pressed each agency responsible for some aspect of the nation\u2019s energy policy \u2014 the Departments of Energy, Interior, Treasury, Commerce, Health and Human Services, and the U.S. Trade Representative \u2014 asking if the Administration had analyzed the costs that consumers would bear from the Administration\u2019s harmful policies.\n\n\u201cThe results of this investigation reveal that \u2013 even as prices continue to rise \u2013 your Administration has no explanations for its failures and no answers for American families that are hit hard by high energy costs,\u201d wrote the lawmakers.\n\nNeither the Department of Energy nor the Department of the Interior responded, evading basic questions about the Administration\u2019s decision-making. Other agencies offered nothing but platitudes, including the Treasury Department and the Department of Health and Human Services. U.S. Trade Ambassador Greer admitted that trade policies have \u201cimpacts on industries like energy that affect consumers\u201d but confirmed that his agency had not conducted any \u201cspecific analyses related to energy pricing.\u201d\n\nThe lawmakers slammed the responses as \u201cdisappointing,\u201d concluding that the Trump administration has \u201cno explanations for its failures and no answers for American families that are hit hard by high energy costs, and it continues to actively pursue policies to make this cost crisis worse.\u201d\n\nRead the full Climate Power report here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.warren.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/warren-markey-merkley-press-trump-on-failure-to-address-american-families-rising-electricity-costs"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8288798853754997, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}