President Donald Trump‘s rescissions bill that passed the U.S. House includes up to $125 million in cuts for the Clean Technology Fund at the Climate Investment Funds.
The fund supports “Green New Deal” projects, which were introduced under President Joe Biden, and Trump’s proposal states that the countries partnered with the projects do not align with American values or put Americans first. Trump’s executive order which removed the United States from the Paris Agreement is given as a reason for cutting the funds.
Leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, responded to the U.S. House passage of the Rescissions Act of 2025 (H.R. 4), which claws back $9.4 billion in previously approved federal funds, including funding for international climate programs.
“This rescissions package is a heinous attempt by House Republicans to legitimize and make permanent the illegal funding cuts and chaotic actions of unelected billionaire Elon Musk and DOGE. These claw backs of funding for international climate assistance programs will cede our global leadership to China and simultaneously increase the risk of worldwide conflict as vulnerable populations are displaced by ever-increasing natural disasters and extreme climate conditions. President Trump and his Republican cronies have decided to pull the rug out from under our trusted allies, undermine our national security and jeopardize our credibility on the international stage,” the SEEC leaders wrote in a statement June 12.
According to the SEEC, the funding cuts laid out in the rescissions bill are the beginning of Trump and Republicans digging deeper to make “more atrocious cuts to the social and economic fabric of our nation. This rescissions package proves that Trump and Congressional Republicans would rather stick their heads in the sand than face reality. Their reckless callousness will leave Americans defenseless and alone on the global stage.”
The SEEC is a coalition of 100 members of the U.S. House of Representatives that was founded in January 2009 to be a focused, active, and effective coalition for advancing policies that address climate change, promote clean energy innovation and domestic manufacturing, develop renewable energy resources, create family-sustaining clean jobs, protect our nation’s air, water, and natural environment, and promote environmental justice.
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Rebecca Barnabi
