Since returning to office, Donald Trump has taken a series of deliberate actions that are driving up energy costs for American families. He’s frozen clean energy investments and imposed a national tariff tax on energy imports. In July, Trump and Republicans passed the Big Oil Billionaire Bill—a catastrophe in the making. It repeals the clean energy tax credits fueling America’s manufacturing boom and slashing household energy costs. It’s a shameless grift, ripping money from working families to bankroll tax giveaways for billionaires and corporate polluters. By signing the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” into law, Trump and Congressional Republicans will be responsible for the loss of roughly 900,000 jobs and for raising the average American’s electricity bills by $110-$400.
And that’s only part of the story. Trump’s broader so-called “energy dominance” agenda continues to destabilize markets, disrupt clean energy progress, and drive up costs. Since then, despite mounting evidence that his policies are hitting working families with higher energy bills, Trump has doubled down. He was one of the speakers at Senator Dave McCormick's inaugural AI energy summit on July 15, where he celebrated the rapid growth of AI and power-hungry data centers, while actively undermining the clean, homegrown power we need to support it.
We’ve been tracking the many ways Trump’s agenda is failing to keep his campaign pledge to cut energy bills in half, hiking costs for working-class Americans, and selling them out to benefit oligarchs and the ultra-wealthy. Below is a breakdown of actions Trump has taken, starting from the most recent and going back to January 2025 when he first took office, along with their impact on everyday Americans’ wallets: