12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions · Major · Needs Congress

Repeal the IIJA and IRA and rescind their unspent funds

Partially done

Printed page 365 12. Department of Energy and Related Commissions

“Support repeal of massive spending bills like the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which established new programs and are providing hundreds of billions of dollars in subsidies to renewable energy developers, their investors, and special interests, and support the rescinding of all funds not already spent by these programs.”

What has happened

Jan 23, 2026 Partially done
The FY2026 Energy and Water act (P.L. 119-74, division B) §311 took $5.165 billion of unobligated IIJA balances (hydrogen hubs, carbon capture demonstrations, industrial decarbonization, EERE) and re-spent them on small modular reactors, transformer supply chains and regular DOE accounts — a repurposing, not a rescission. The FY2027 request (2026-04-03) again proposes canceling $15.2 billion of unobligated IIJA funds.
- P.L. 119-74 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 (division B title III §311)
  Primary Congress Jan 23, 2026
- DOE FY 2027 Budget in Brief — proposes cancelling $15.2 billion of unobligated IIJA funds
  Primary Executive branch Apr 3, 2026
Jul 4, 2025 Partially done
P.L. 119-21 (the reconciliation act) repealed IRA §50142 (advanced industrial facilities deployment) and rescinded the unobligated balances of eight IRA DOE sections (§§50123, 50141, 50144, 50145, 50151-50153, 50161), plus dozens of IRA EPA, GSA and other appropriations (Title VI); it terminated or phased out the IRA's clean-vehicle, home-efficiency, residential clean energy, hydrogen and (for wind and solar) clean-electricity credits. Neither statute was repealed as a whole and the IIJA was not touched.
- P.L. 119-21 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14 (subtitle D §50402 Repeals; rescissions; Title VI rescissions; Title VII subtitle B ch. 5 credit terminations)
  Primary Congress Jul 4, 2025
May 2, 2025 Attempted
The President's FY2026 discretionary budget request proposed canceling $15.247 billion of unobligated IIJA balances at DOE ("Green New Scam funds"), a formal administration request to Congress.
- Fiscal Year 2026 Discretionary Budget Request (OMB), Department of Energy — IIJA Cancellation, -$15,247 million
  Primary Executive branch May 2, 2025

Research log

What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence

Research notes

The IIJA cancellation figure appears in the OMB FY2026 request (p. 21) and again in the DOE FY2027 Budget in Brief (p. 2, “cancelling a total of $15.2 billion of unobligated dollars from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act”); Congress has not enacted it in either year.
DOE’s award terminations (2025-05-30, 2025-10-01) cancel obligations under IIJA/IRA-funded programs but do not rescind appropriations; they are tracked under #926 and #947.
H.R. 191, “Inflation Reduction Act of 2025” (introduced 2025-01-03), is an introduction only.

Action: repeal
Object: Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and Inflation Reduction Act
ID: 922