Senate Democrats are reviving a push to terminate President Donald Trump’s energy emergency as they blame the White House for rising electricity prices.
Democrats lost an effort earlier this year to pass a joint resolution against the president’s emergency declaration, which allows the government to bypass environmental review to ramp energy production, a move they say favors fossil fuels over renewables.
Now Democrats think might be able to get some Republicans on board. “The economic effects become more and more obvious,” sponsor Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) said in an interview Friday.
He reasoned that both Trump’s tariffs and the One Big Beautiful Act are going to hinder domestic power supply and cause American utility bills to rise. It’s something Democrats are looking to hammer the GOP on heading into the midterms.
