{"id":2493,"date":"2018-04-12T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/12\/perry-will-defend-trumps-disastrous-energy-cuts\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T15:28:00","slug":"perry-will-defend-trumps-disastrous-energy-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perry-will-defend-trumps-disastrous-energy-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Perry Will Defend Trump\u2019s Disastrous Energy Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;budget&nbsp;is a complete disaster. With so many cuts that would hurt Americans across the country, here are just a few of the many cuts to the Department of Energy that Rick Perry will have to try to defend as he testifies before Congress:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump&rsquo;s budget guts the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, while it boosts funding for fossil energy research and development.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2018\/02\/12\/trump-moves-to-reshuffle-energy-department-priorities-with-2-billion-boost-to-nuclear-spending\/?utm_term=.6071e88f3c2e\">Washington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;<strong>At the same time, the administration is asking for deep cuts elsewhere, especially in the agency&rsquo;s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy<\/strong>, which studies advanced transportation and wind and solar energy. The budget requests $696 million for that program, a 66 percent cut from the 2017 budget. That number includes $120 million added back after the recent two-year budget accord.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-budget-energy\/trump-budget-cuts-renewable-energy-office-ups-nuclear-weapons-spending-idUSKBN1FW2MZ\">Reuters<\/a>: &ldquo;But the budget calls for the &lsquo;termination&rsquo; of the loans programs and the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, while maintaining the existing loan portfolio and making sure existing awards are completed. <strong>And it calls for a more than 19 percent boost to the fossil energy research and development office to $502 million <\/strong>for making advanced power systems based on fossil fuels like coal and natural gas more efficient.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump&rsquo;s budget sells off electric transmission assets of some longstanding federally-owned utilities, such as the Tennessee Valley Authority. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/energy-environment\/wp\/2018\/02\/12\/trump-moves-to-reshuffle-energy-department-priorities-with-2-billion-boost-to-nuclear-spending\/?utm_term=.6071e88f3c2e\">Washington Post<\/a>: &ldquo;<strong>The administration also is seeking to sell electric transmission assets of a handful of long-standing federally owned utilities, including the Bonneville Power Administration in Washington state, the Western Area Power Administration and the Tennessee Valley Authority<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Trump&rsquo;s budget abolishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, an incubator for next-generation technology, as well as several loan programs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:.5in;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/livecoverage\/trumps-2019-budget-proposal-live-analysis\/card\/1518469425\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>: &ldquo;Also included in the plan is a steep cut for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, down by more than half from the current budget. <strong>The office would lose $1.3 billion of its nearly $2 billion in funding, and the department would eliminate funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, an incubator for next-generation technology<\/strong>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump&rsquo;s&nbsp;budget&nbsp;is a complete disaster. With so many cuts that would hurt Americans across the country, here are just a few of the many cuts to the Department of Energy that Rick Perry will have to try to defend as he testifies before Congress: &nbsp; Trump&rsquo;s budget guts the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Perry Will Defend Trump\u2019s Disastrous Energy Cuts - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perry-will-defend-trumps-disastrous-energy-cuts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-04-12T15:28:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perry-will-defend-trumps-disastrous-energy-cuts\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/perry-will-defend-trumps-disastrous-energy-cuts\/\",\"name\":\"Perry Will Defend Trump\u2019s Disastrous Energy Cuts - 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