Eliminate the department's applied energy programs
What the document says“The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all DOE applied energy programs including OE”
The chapter repeats this proposal office by office, asking for the elimination of the offices covering electricity, fossil energy and carbon management, nuclear energy and energy efficiency and renewable energy. It says taxpayer dollars should not subsidize preferred businesses and energy resources, which it says distorts the market and undermines reliability. It allows a possible exception for work related to basic science for new energy technology.
What the document actually says“The next Administration should work with Congress to eliminate all DOE applied energy programs including OE”
Work with Congress to close these energy programs. All of them.
The department runs programs that help bring energy technology to market. The book says private firms should do that. It wants the programs closed.
Making consolidated appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026, and for other purposes
2026-01-23 · 140 Stat. 5
Public Law 119-74, enacted January 23, 2026, acts on the same offices the passage names and funds them. Title III appropriates $3,100,000,000 under the heading Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, $235,000,000 under Electricity, $1,785,000,000 under Nuclear Energy and $720,000,000 under Fossil Energy, each for fiscal year 2026 and each to remain available until expended. The passage asks Congress to eliminate those applied energy programs. The fit breaks down in that an appropriations act does not decide whether an office continues to exist: it neither creates nor abolishes any of these offices, it sets amounts for a single fiscal year, and it says nothing about the exception for basic science research the chapter allows.
A law of January 23, 2026 funds the same energy offices the passage would close. It gives $3.1 billion for one, $235 million for another, and more for nuclear and coal work. But a spending law does not decide if an office lives on. It sets sums for one year and ends nothing.