Hill Heat

Energy, Climate, & Grid Security Subcommittee hearing on the DOE’s fiscal year 2024 budget.

Subcommittee Chair Jeff Duncan (R-SC)

2024 Department of Energy Budget Justification: $52 billion ($32.5 military)

Chairs Rodgers and Duncan released the following statement:

“The Department of Energy (DOE) has long served America’s critical national and energy security interests. It maintains the nation’s nuclear stockpile, advances world class national security and engineering goals through the national laboratories, and nurtures the supply of American energy. The Democrats’ reckless spending spree has allocated billions of taxpayer dollars for DOE to implement President Biden’s rush-to-green agenda, which is forcing higher energy costs on Americans, making the U.S. more reliant on China, and distracting from the agency’s congressionally-mandated mission of advancing our nation’s energy security and leadership. Secretary Granholm, who has been at the helm of implementing this radical agenda, needs to answer to Americans whose lives have been made worse while she’s praising China—a country with some of the worst environmental and labor standards in the world. We’ll demand answers from her on how we can reverse this damage and flip the switch on domestic production of cleaner oil, natural gas, nuclear, hydropower, and other sources, which is the best way to bring down costs and reduce emissions.”