DOE is Delivering on President Trump’s Agenda of American Energy Dominance.
December 18, 2025
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UNLEASHING THE GOLDEN ERA OF ENERGY DOMINANCE AND LOWERING PRICES
With President Trump and Secretary Wright’s leadership, the Energy Department has ushered in an unprecedented era of energy dominance, resulting in record energy production and more affordable prices.
- Thanks to President Trump, gas prices are at a 4-year low averaging about $2.90/gal. Savings for the American people will amount to over $500 million this Christmas.
- Never before in America’s history has our Nation been more energy dominant: Thanks to President Trump’s policies, America leads the world in oil and natural gas production, producing at all-time records.
- The U.S. now produces more oil than Saudia Arabia and Russia combined at 24.2 million barrels per day.
- The U.S. now produces as much natural gas as Russia, Iran and China combined at 108 billion cubic feet per day.
- On Day One, President Trump directed the Energy Department to end the Biden LNG export ban, delivering prosperity at home and peace abroad. Since January, The Energy Department has approved more LNG export capacity than the volume exported today by the world’s second-largest LNG exporter.
- Since President Trump took office, prices for propane, kerosene, firewood and fuel oil are all down.
- Thanks to President Trump and the passage of the Working Families Tax Cut, the Energy Department is refilling and repairing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) after the Biden administration recklessly drained and damaged it for political purposes.
- In May 2025, the Energy Department announced the largest deregulatory effort in the department’s history, proposing the elimination of 47 regulations driving up costs for consumers, estimated to save Americans $11 billion in costs.
- In March 2025, the Energy Department withdrew four conservation standards, including standards on electric motors, ceiling fans, dehumidifiers and external power supplies, cutting red tape, restoring consumer choice and lowering costs for the American people.
PREVENTING BLACKOUTS AND REVERSING THE BIDEN ENERGY SUBTRACTION AGENDA
The previous administration’s energy subtraction agenda threatened the reliability of the U.S. energy grid, which is why on Day One, President Trump declared a national energy emergency and made it a central mission of his administration to lower costs and stabilize the grid.
- Under the Biden administration, there were plans to shutter coal, natural gas and hydro-powered electricity plants. An Energy Department report released earlier this year showed that before President Trump’s election, America was on track to experience a massive shortfall of reliable electricity generation and 100 times more blackouts in the next five years.
- Thanks to President Trump, the Energy Department is reversing those dangerous and costly energy subtraction policies. The Energy Department has issued 16 emergency orders, to maximize grid reliability, affordability and to keep power online and available that would have otherwise been shuttered. These emergency orders have been essential in keeping the lights on during periods of extreme weather and periods of peak demand.
- Thanks to President Trump, the Energy Department halted the Biden Administration’s radical anti-hydroelectricity policy in the Columbia River Basin, which could have led to the shutdown of more than 3,000 megawatts of affordable, reliable and secure hydroelectric power – enough generation to power about 2.5 million homes.
- The Energy Department has provided overdue support to addressing Puerto Rico’s grid crisis and delivering affordable, reliable, and secure energy to 3.2 million Puerto Ricans. In October 2025, the Energy Department reallocated $365 million in funding to help fix grid crisis and support commonsense repairs, helping more Puerto Ricans on a faster timeline.
- In September 2025, the Energy Department cancelled more than $13 billion in unobligated funds that were appropriated to advance the previous Administration’s wasteful Green New Scam agenda and returned these funds to the U.S. Treasury.
ENDING THE WAR ON BEAUTIFUL, CLEAN COAL
While the last administration declared war on American coal, President Trump and DOE are fully committed to strengthening American coal-workers and coal's critical role in powering America.
- Thanks to President Trump, wages for coal workers are up and coal plants across the country are reversing plans to shut down. By the end of the year, more than 15 gigawatts of coal-powered electricity generation will have been saved, strengthening grid reliability and affordability.
- Following the President’s Executive Order to “Reinvigorate America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” Secretary Wright issued five initiatives to expand and modernize the coal industry and support emerging technologies.
- The Energy Department reinstated the National Coal Council to provide expert guidance on the future of coal technologies and markets.
ENSURING NATIONAL SECURITY BY REDUCING FOREIGN DEPENDENCE ON CRITICAL MINERALS
Thanks to President Trump, the Energy Department is reshoring American-made supply chains for critical minerals, making U.S. national security a priority by reducing U.S. dependence on foreign supply chains.
- In November 2025, DOE announced $355 million in funding opportunities for American industrial facilities capable of producing valuable minerals from existing industrial and coal byproducts and to establish Mine of the Future proving grounds for real-world testing of next-generation mining technologies.
- In December 2025, DOE announced $134 million in funding opportunities to enhance domestic supply chains for rare earth elements (REEs), to support projects that will commercialize the recovering and refining of REEs from unconventional feedstocks.
- The Energy Department announced it restructured a loan with Lithium Americas to further protect taxpayers and solidify the launch of the only domestic source of lithium carbonate here in America. The new terms provide the U.S. Government with 5% equity ownership in the form of Lithium America Corporation warrants.
- DOE’s national labs have been able to develop technologies to extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal waste, and is partnering with the private industry to commercialize and advance these technologies.
MODERNIZING AMERICA’S NUCLEAR DETERRENT
The Energy Department has prioritized national security by modernizing the U.S. nuclear enterprise that supports President Trump’s Peace Through Strength Agenda. These actions have ended years of neglect to keep our Nation safe and strategic readiness.
- Signed into law earlier this year, President Trump’s Working Families Tax Cut made more than $3 billion to accelerate the modernization efforts at the Energy Department’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
- Completed the manufacturing of the first B61-13 gravity bomb, the latest modification to the B61 family of nuclear weapons. The first unit was assembled almost a year before the original target date and less than two years after the program was first announced, making the B61-13 one of the most rapidly developed and fielded weapons since the Cold War.
- Completed the Last Production Unit (LPU) of the W88 Alteration (Alt) 370, a multiyear program to modernize the W88 nuclear warhead carried onboard Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines.
- NNSA announced two new supercomputers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, which will significantly advance U.S. national security, AI, and scientific research capabilities.
- DOE has already been working to accelerate science and innovation, to ensure U.S. has the technology to unleash the potential of harnessing nuclear fusion power in the U.S. In October 2025, DOE released its Fusion Science and Technology Roadmap (FS&T) Roadmap, as a national strategy to develop and commercialize nuclear fusion power in the most rapid, responsible time in history.