Boston (August 7, 2025) - Senator Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.), member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, released the following statement after the Trump administration declared it will unlawfully terminate the $7 billion Solar for All funding that has been awarded to 60 states, Tribes, and nonprofits, and that was set to enable over 900,000 households in low-income and disadvantaged communities to benefit from distributed solar energy. Instead, the Trump administration is going to increase energy bills and cut megawatts of energy from the grid as demand continues to rise.

“Instead of Solar for All, Trump and Zeldin want higher costs for all. This latest heist from the Trump administration will cause energy costs to rise, keep Americans beholden to monopolistic electric utilities, and make our grid overburdened and less reliable. Trump and Zeldin’s attacks on the Solar for All program and their attempts to cancel legally binding contracts will mean energy bills are going to continue to spike nationwide. 

“American households are already facing skyrocketing energy costs and are begging for relief, not political retribution. Solar for All was set to cut participating households’ average energy bills by $400 a year, with more than $8 billion in savings overall across all fifty states. This program should have been a win for the Administration—cutting it means stealing $4.6 billion away from states with Republican governors or senators. A heist of that magnitude simply makes no political or practical sense, especially when energy bills are going up and our grid is desperate for more generation, not more gridlock.”

The Solar for All funding was passed into law and obligated under the Inflation Reduction Act as part of the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, which was based on Senator Markey’s National Climate Bank Act. While unobligated funding for the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund was repealed as part of the Republicans’ Big Ugly Budget Bill, the funding for this program had been fully obligated with executed contracts for all recipients.

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