Trump’s First 100 Days Exact Punishing Costs on Working Families 

Washington, D.C. — On the 100th day of Donald Trump’s second presidential term, Climate Power executive director Lori Lodes issued the following statement:

“Donald Trump promised lower costs, but just 100 days into his second term, it’s clear: working families can’t afford the soaring costs of Trump’s chaos. His attacks on clean energy have already threatened or destroyed tens of thousands of good-paying manufacturing jobs and household utility bills are being driven up. His reckless tariffs triggered one of the largest and most senseless tax hikes in history, raising the cost of almost everything, paralyzing businesses, and pushing the economy toward a recession. He’s slashed clean air and water protections that save billions in public health costs and gutted disaster response, even as the climate crisis makes extreme weather more frequent, damaging, and deadly. In just 100 days, Trump has left American families paying more and facing greater danger.”

Here’s a closer look at the cost of Trump’s first 100 days:

• Trump’s war on clean energy has already canceled or threatened more than 50,000 clean energy jobs and more than $56 billion in investments.

• Utility companies in at least 19 states have hiked rates as much as $40 per month, with more pain looming as Trump continues to stifle clean energy production and spike infrastructure costs with reckless tariffs that get passed onto consumers.

• Trump effectively killed the program responsible for helping 6.2 million Americans pay their heating and cooling bills, firing the entire staff.

• Trump has purged over 1,000 staffers from both our disaster response agency and the agency tasked with weather forecasting – roughly 20% of each entity’s capacity – leaving Americans in the dark and cold as climate catastrophes strike.