Ranking Member Huffman Slams President Trump’s Day One Executive Orders to Sacrifice Natural Resources to Billionaires
Washington, D.C. – Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) today issued the following statement on President Trump’s Day One executive orders:
“It has become clear within just the first few hours of the second Trump administration that his sights are set on an all-out assault on environmental protections, public lands, and the climate progress we’ve fought so hard to achieve. Our country is reeling from the disastrous impacts of the climate crisis. Instead of addressing the needs of everyday Americans, Trump made it his first order of business to roll out the red carpet for the worst of Project 2025’s anti-climate agenda.
“Candidate Trump just won an election where he promised the American people he would lower costs, keep them and their families safe and healthy, and build a brighter future for the working class. He swore that Project 2025 was not his agenda. President Trump’s day-one actions smack of betrayal. He is rewarding his billionaire friends and corporate polluters with a cascade of executive orders straight out of Project 2025 that will harm public health, increase energy prices, and worsen the already staggering destruction of the climate crisis.
“Actions speak louder than words, and the ones Trump took today will forever be remembered as the opening salvo of a presidency devoted to corporate greed, environmental destruction, and the reckless worsening of the climate crisis.”
Reversing Democratic Progress
Clean energy is creating jobs and revitalizing communities: Federal clean energy investments are already creating more than 400,000 new jobs across the country. It’s driving a manufacturing boom and bringing jobs back to America.
If Trump succeeds in killing clean energy investments, families will pay more: Americans have saved billions of dollars through clean energy tax credits, and they’ll save as much as $38 billion on electricity bills by 2030. Gutting clean energy investments would force families to pay more — all to make oil and gas executives even richer.
Clean energy is cheaper than oil and gas, and America needs more energy. If Trump guts our cheapest and cleanest energy options, working families will pay more and our grid will be less reliable when America’s energy needs are only increasing.