President Donald Trump issued an executive order demanding the end of green energy subsidies, condemning the dependence of wind and solar facilities on foreign adversarial supply chains.
“For too long, the Federal Government has forced American taxpayers to subsidize expensive and unreliable energy sources like wind and solar,” the order says. “The proliferation of these projects displaces affordable, reliable, dispatchable domestic energy sources, compromises our electric grid, and denigrates the beauty of our Nation’s natural landscape.”
Trump wrote that the reliance on green subsidies “threatens national security” through foreign chains, explaining that ending handouts to what he said were “unreliable energy sources” is critical to U.S. “energy dominance, national security, economic growth, and the fiscal health of the Nation.”
The order directs Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to “strictly enforce the termination of the clean electricity production and investment tax credits under sections 45Y and 48E of the Internal Revenue Code for wind and solar facilities” within 45 days of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s enactment.
The order further instructs Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to “conduct a review of regulations, guidance, policies, and practices under the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction to determine whether any provide preferential treatment to wind and solar facilities in comparison to dispatchable energy sources.”
According to 2023 data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, renewable energy generates 21.4% of the nation’s electricity. Wind accounts for 10.2% of electricity, and solar accounts for 3.9% of electricity.
Trump declared a “national energy emergency” in January.
“We need a reliable, diversified, and affordable supply of energy to drive our Nation’s manufacturing, transportation, agriculture, and defense industries, and to sustain the basics of modern life and military preparedness,” the January order said. “Caused by the harmful and shortsighted policies of the previous administration, our Nation’s inadequate energy supply and infrastructure causes and makes worse the high energy prices that devastate Americans, particularly those living on low- and fixed-incomes.”
