The Trump regime is paying German energy giant RWE $1.22 billion not to build offshore wind farms. It is the fifth such deal this year, pushing the public cost of dismantling clean-power projects toward $4 billion.

This is not an isolated decision. The administration has attacked pollution limits for power plants, sought exemptions allowing industrial facilities to release more toxic chemicals, weakened methane controls, and moved to erase the scientific foundation for regulating greenhouse gases. Trump officials proudly call this the largest deregulatory campaign in American history.

They're not stopping there, the 2027 fiscal budget proposal, is signaling a catastrophic shift that would reduce National Park Service funding by over 25% percent. The proposal slashes $736 million from national park operations while simultaneously allocating $10 billion for “Presidential Capital Stewardship Program” focused on vanity projects in Washington, D.C. Compounding these cuts, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum has introduced another deferred resignation program and voluntary early retirement to further decimate the workforce on our public lands. 

The beneficiaries are no mystery: oil, gas, coal, and other corporate polluters and extractors. Neither is the political bargain. During his campaign, Trump reportedly told oil executives that if they raised $1 billion to return him to the White House, they would receive a lucrative policy payoff. Now our tax payer dollars are paying companies to abandon clean energy while major polluters receive weaker rules and fewer consequences.

This is legalized corruption in action: corporations supply the money, politicians deliver the policy, and ordinary people inherit the bill, the pollution, and the environmental destruction.

That is why Move to Amend diligently works to establish that money is not speech and corporations are not people entitled to unalienable rights. Until we end the insane notions of corporate constitutional rights and unlimited political spending, public policy will remain an auction - and the fossil-fuel industry will keep placing the winning bids.

Donate today to help build the movement for the We the People Amendment. We cannot outspend corporate America; only together can we take away its power to buy our government.

Love and solidarity,

Alfonso, Jessica, Jason, Tara, Cole, Shelly, George, Daniel, Kelsey, Jennie, Keyan, Greg and Katie