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Wright Delivers Opening Remarks on the Energy Department's 2026 Budget Request, Jun. 10, 2025

June 10, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:06:21

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivered his opening statement on the President’s fiscal year 2026 budget request for the Department of Energy, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the June 10, 2025 House hearing — Wright greeted the committee’s chairmen and ranking members, including Chairman Guthrie and Ranking Member Pallone, from the podium. He framed the department’s priorities as a golden era of American energy dominance, strengthened national security, and world-leading innovation, calling a reliable and abundant energy supply the foundation of a strong and prosperous nation.

Wright told the committee the department would return to its core mission and eliminate spending on projects that failed to provide a return for taxpayers, and he repeated the figure he carried through the budget season: the termination of 24 projects totaling over $3.7 billion in financial assistance that, he said, had been rushed out the door without proper due diligence in the final days of the previous administration and failed DOE’s economic, national security, or energy security standards. In their place he described a policy of energy addition, fully leveraging the coal, oil, and natural gas he said the country is blessed with in abundance.

Why it matters

The June 10 opening is the House-side twin of Wright’s Senate budget statements — the same doctrine and the same $3.7 billion termination figure, delivered within the same budget week — marking how consistently the new secretary prosecuted one message across both chambers.

Scoreboard watch

Scoreboard watch: Secretary Wright’s June 10, 2025 statement that DOE terminated 24 projects totaling over $3.7 billion for failing its standards, as he stated it to the House committee. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright Delivers Opening Remarks on Department of Energy 2026 Budget Request- June 10, 2025” (official upload, embedded above; opening statement as delivered by Secretary Wright).