Rahm Emanuel Blames Trump for Expensive Electricity, While Ignoring the Real Culprit: Him
October 30, 2025
Rahm Emanuel has a message for you: your electric bill went up, and somehow it’s Donald Trump’s fault. In his Wall Street Journal op-ed titled “Rising Electricity Price? Thank Trump,” the former Obama chief of staff does what Washington Democrats do best, rewrite history. He claims that cutting Biden’s green-energy subsidies through the One Big Beautiful Bill Act caused electricity prices to rise. But the facts, and basic economics, say the opposite. When he was Mayor of Chicago, Emanuel proposed in 2012 that the city negotiate a surcharge on customers’ electricity bills to pay for his renewable energy and efficiency…