Trump Urges Senate to Pass Permitting Reform Bill, Says Data Centers Must Pay for Their Own Electricity
President Donald Trump, in a post on his Truth Social platform on Sunday afternoon, November 8, urged all U.S. senators to vote for the American Affordability and Jobs Act (S. 5653), the bipartisan permitting reform bill set for a procedural vote in the Senate on November 9. Trump called the bill a big win for U.S. energy independence and dominance and urged members of the public to call their senators and ask them to vote yes.
Trump wrote that the landmark permitting reform legislation would codify his America First energy agenda and ensure that pipelines, mines and power plants can be built faster than ever before, lowering energy costs for American families and creating high-paying American jobs. He said the bill would also codify his Ratepayer Protection Pledge, ensuring that data centers build and pay for their own electricity and help invest in their local communities. Trump added that China would take any data center the United States does not want and pay a lot of money for it, and that the United States is number one and should stay that way.
The bill, formally the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026, was introduced on September 30 by Senators Shelley Moore Capito, Mike Lee, Sheldon Whitehouse and Martin Heinrich. Its 417 pages set firm deadlines for federal environmental reviews, cap legal challenges to approved projects at 150 days, reform transmission permitting, and require large data centers to cover the grid costs they create. The bill has not passed and is not law.
Senate negotiators have targeted a procedural vote on November 9. White House support for the bill had been reported earlier, described as the administration's top priority for the lame-duck session; Trump's post puts that support on the record in his own words, addressed to all senators. The measure needs 60 votes to advance in the Senate, and some Democratic senators and more than 100 environmental and labor groups have publicly raised reservations or opposition, saying it weakens environmental review.
The post is Trump's latest public intervention on domestic legislation since the November 3 midterm elections, in which Democrats won control of both the House and the Senate. The new Congress takes office in January, and the bill is seen as one of the major measures the current Congress can still move before its term ends. (Source: Donald Trump)
Source: Donald Trump
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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