Section 3 · The General Welfare
⚡Ch. 12 — Department of Energy
DOE · 14 tracked
Rename DOE as Department of Energy Security and Advanced Science; drop winner-picking
Proposed
Mandate would rename DOE to DESAS focused on energy security, advanced science, remediation, nuclear weapons/naval reactors, and promoting U.S. energy interests abroad—explicitly getting government out of picking energy winners and losers.
Support repeal of IIJA/IRA energy subsidies and rescind unspent funds
Proposed
Mandate tells the next Administration to support repealing IIJA and IRA programs that subsidize renewables/special interests and to rescind all unspent funds from those programs.
Eliminate OCED, ARPA-E, Grid Deployment programs, and DOE Loan Program
Proposed
Mandate targets elimination or deep reform of Clean Energy Demonstrations, ARPA-E, Grid Deployment (rescinding unspent IIJA grid/transmission/nuclear-credit money), State/Community Energy Programs, and the Loan Program as commercialization subsidies.
Eliminate FECM (or restore Fossil Energy office); expedite LNG exports
Proposed
Mandate would eliminate FECM applied programs, restore the Office of Fossil Energy mission, kill CCUS subsidy focus (leave to private sector), pursue critical minerals from coal wastes, expedite LNG approvals, and reinstate NEPA categorical exclusion for LNG exports.
Eliminate EERE and roll back federal appliance energy/water efficiency standards
Proposed
Mandate seeks congressional elimination of EERE applied programs, rescission of excess EERE appropriations, refocus on fundamental research if retained, and modification/repeal of EPCA appliance standards that DOE periodically tightens.
Refocus OE/CESER on grid security; reinstate Bulk-Power EO 13920; end OE applied grants
Proposed
Mandate elevates CESER, prioritizes cyber/physical resilience and gas–electric interdependence, reinstates Trump EO 13920 bulk-power equipment security, works with FERC/NERC on dispatchable generation adequacy, and eliminates OE applied storage/GETs grant programs.
Shrink Office of Nuclear Energy; stop new civilian reactor commercialization projects
Proposed
Mandate would substantially limit NE’s scope to basic research/waste/fuels/reactor tech, end new civilian demonstration/commercialization projects (honoring existing contracts), and push private sector to shoulder licensing/commercial support.
Restart Yucca Mountain licensing and permanent nuclear waste disposal leadership
Proposed
Mandate highlights the stalled Yucca Mountain process, $46B Nuclear Waste Fund, and need for DESAS leadership on disposal of commercial and government spent fuel plus low-level waste facilities.
Fund new nuclear warheads and plutonium pit production; expand naval reactors
Proposed
Mandate directs funding design/development/deployment of new warheads including pit production, expanding Navy nuclear propulsion, ending ineffective nonproliferation activities involving Iran/UN, and prioritizing NNSA over non-nuclear DOE programs.
Refocus FERC on affordable, reliable power—not progressive special interests
Proposed
Mandate says FERC must ensure customers have affordable, reliable electricity/gas/oil and no longer favor special interests and progressive causes, alongside DESAS reliability coordination.
Make NRC facilitate rather than hamper private nuclear innovation and deployment
Proposed
Mandate explicitly includes ensuring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission facilitates private-sector nuclear energy innovation and deployment as a pillar of energy dominance.
Confine Strategic Petroleum Reserve to national strategic purposes—not politics
Proposed
Mandate, noting SPR moved under CESER, insists DESAS ensure SPR is maintained for national strategic purposes and not misused for political gain.
Stop DOE energy-justice, Justice40, and DEI social-agenda programs
Proposed
Mandate instructs ending use of energy policy for politicized social agendas, naming energy justice, Justice40, and DEI as programs that can promote politicized agendas rather than abundant affordable energy and fair employment.
Refocus National Labs on defense/advanced science; reduce climate-renewables capture
Proposed
Mandate argues labs have been too focused on climate change and renewable technologies and that science dominance requires recommitment against espionage and toward transformative national-security science, including rationalizing the lab complex with Congress.