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Tennessee: The Great American Comeback
Tennessee shows what pro-growth policy delivers: no state income tax, unemployment far below the national rate, record-breaking investment, and now the largest federal tax relief for working families in a generation under the Working Families Tax Cut (WFTC)—enacted as the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB) and signed July 4, 2025.
Powering Colorado
Colorado sits at the center of one of America's most productive onshore energy systems. In 2025, the state produced 170.5 million barrels of crude oil and 1.87 trillion cubic feet of marketed natural gas (U.S. Energy Information Administration [EIA], 2026a; EIA, 2026b), accounting for about 3–4% of U.S. crude oil output and a similar single-digit share of national marketed natural gas production (EIA, 2025; EIA, 2026c). Production from the Denver-Julesburg Basin helps supply energy to homes, businesses, manufacturers, and farms across the region while generating significant revenues for Colorado communities.
Congress Should Follow the Administration’s Lead on Lowering Energy Prices
Recent action by the Trump administration has made historic strides to free up energy production, reduce burdensome regulations, and repeal harmful and unnecessary rules. In particular, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and Energy Secretary Chris Wright have made significant progress in reducing the regulatory pressure on energy production. From the EPA’s “biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history” to the notable reduction of “47 burdensome and costly regulations” by the DOE, the administration has effectively moved the country from a net-zero to energy dominance focus.
Ten Actions Congress Could Take to Lower Energy Prices | Fact Sheet
Energy powers modern life, and affordable, reliable energy powers prosperity. Prices stabilize—and often decline—when Congress sets reasonable safety and environmental standards, then steps back to let free markets, innovation, and competition deliver supply, reliability, and controlled costs.
Ten Actions Congress Could Take to Lower Energy Prices
Energy powers life, and energy that is affordable and reliable powers prosperity. But affordable and reliable energy requires a few basics to become a reality: sufficient supplies and controlled costs. Energy prices tend to stabilize—and even decline—when Washington establishes reasonable safety and environmental guidelines, then steps back to let free markets operate, and individuals and businesses innovate and produce.