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Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, this morning, I spoke with Revolution Wind, informing me that they are suing the Trump administration over their attacks on offshore wind projects. The suit is a regrettable but necessary step, illustrating the deep damage Donald Trump's administration is causing to American energy and to U.S. jobs.

Donald Trump has made no secret he detests offshore wind strategy-- and for no good reason. He doesn't like the way the windmills look. Someone built windmills off the coast of his golf course in Scotland, and he thought it was ugly. So what Donald Trump will do because of these whims is raise everybody's electricity prices dramatically. When your electric bill goes up, it is because of Donald Trump's whims. This one is ridiculous as 80 percent--or over 80 percent of it has been built. Billions of dollars have been sunk into the ground--and they call up, and they say stop, and they don't even give them a reason.

How can so many people go along with his idiotic behavior? How can so many people go along when Donald Trump simply has a whim that is just dumb, stupid, and harmful to the American people and no one does anything about it? Then he has all his minions in the various Agencies shut it off. People's electric bills are spiking. Our energy grid is strained. Everyone admits we need more energy, particularly as AI sucks up so much of it, and Donald Trump is making things worse based on no logic--based on a ridiculous whim.

So we are going to lose thousands of jobs; prices will go up; we won't expand American power; China will gain on us. So it is good that Revolution Wind is taking this step by going to court. But the idiocy of this policy has not been rebutted by anyone in the administration. They just go, ``Yes, sir,'' and go along. It is a disgrace.

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