Fiscal Year 2026 Budget for U.S. Department of Energy

House Appropriations Committee
   Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Subcommittee
2359 Rayburn

05/07/2025 at 10:00AM

Subcommittee hearing.

Chair Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.)

Ranking Member Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio)

Witness:

  • Chris Wright, Secretary, U.S. Department of Energy

Budget request:

Department of Energy
Cuts, Reductions, and Consolidations
Program(millions of $)Description
IIJA Cancellation -15,247 The Budget cancels over $15 billion in funds committed to build renewable energy, removing carbon dioxide from the air, and other technologies. The Budget also ends funding to electric vehicle and battery makers and cancels the Carbon Dioxide Transportation Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act.
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) -2,572 The Budget reorients EERE programs to early-stage research and development programming, eliminating funding for climate change-related activities like the Biden Administration’s Justice40. This proposal would support technologies that promote fossil-fuel power and other priorities, such as bioenergy.
Office of Science -1,148 The Budget reduces funding for climate change and renewable energy research. The Budget maintains U.S. competitiveness in areas such as high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, quantum information science, fusion, and critical minerals.
Environmental Management (EM) -389 The EM program performs activities at 14 active cleanup sites and operates a geologic disposal facility (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, New Mexico). The EM topline is being reduced by $389 million, which reflects a reduction of about $178 million for the transfer of responsibility from the EM program to the National Nuclear Security Administration for the Savannah River site in South Carolina, where plutonium pit production capabilities would be developed. The Budget maintains the Hanford site in Washington at the 2025 enacted level but reduces funding for various cleanup activities at other sites.
Advanced Research Project Agency‒ Energy (ARPA-E) -260 The Budget reduces funding for ARPA-E.
Office of Nuclear Energy -408 The Budget reduces funding for non-essential research on nuclear energy. Continued research priorities include developing innovative concepts for nuclear reactors, researching advanced nuclear fuels, and maintaining the capabilities of the Idaho National Laboratory.
Office of Fossil Energy (and Carbon Management) -270 The Budget renames the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management back to the Office of Fossil Energy, focusing on the research of technologies that could increase extraction of domestic fossil energy and critical minerals.