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The clean economy stands at a critical turning point. Global investments in next-generation technologies are surging, and the Biden administration put the United States in a position to lead. Since 2021, Congress has enacted three landmark laws—the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the CHIPS and Science Act (CHIPS), and the Inflation Reduction Act—to strengthen U.S. manufacturing and invest in emerging sectors that create good-paying jobs. These measures contained flaws, including slow implementation and insufficient checks on anti-union activity by companies benefiting from public funds, but they were delivering results. Billions in federal funding sparked over a trillion dollars in private investment and generated hundreds of thousands of manufacturing and construction jobs. But unfortunately, the Trump administration is now working aggressively to reverse this progress, threatening the United States’ ability to compete in the global market.

In July, President Donald Trump signed the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” repealing nearly $550 billion in funding that would have supported clean energy investments. In addition to that repealed funding, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) also canceled hundreds of contracted awards worth $11 billion for domestic manufacturing, innovation, and decarbonization projects. DOE Secretary Chris Wright led the efforts to halt these clean energy and manufacturing projects. The problem isn’t just the sheer amount of canceled federal funding—it’s that these dollars were driving private investment into critical sectors and delivering benefits to communities nationwide.

Canceling projects will eliminate jobs in emerging sectors; prevent existing industries from adopting advanced technologies and preserving jobs; and squander the opportunity to build a next generation industrial ecosystem in the United States. This story has played out before. Once a global leader in producing solar panels and semiconductors, the United States saw that capacity erode due to domestic policy choices and international developments. Recent efforts to reshore these sectors underscore how challenging it is to rebuild industries once they’ve been lost. Even more troubling, these actions follow a clear pattern: the Trump administration repeatedly canceled legally obligated funding for projects finalized under the Biden administration, relying on flimsy or outright illegal rationales. Moreover, the administration has not disclosed the criteria it uses to review projects. Members of Congress have raised concerns that decisions to cancel projects were made entirely by a small group of political appointees, “based on nothing more than a one-page summary memo for each project, drafted by yet another political appointee.” These actions undermine faith in the public sector, inflict material harm on companies that held signed agreements, and diminish the public sector’s ability to partner with strategic industries in the future.

For more information on the projects impacted by these cancelations, check out our research tool at www.bluegreenalliance.org/impacttracker.

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