[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 87 (Thursday, May 21, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3715]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     ENERGY AFFORDABILITY IN HAWAII

  (Ms. TOKUDA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. TOKUDA. Mr. Speaker, last week the President said he doesn't 
think much about Americans' finances.
  Families in Hawaii do. They think about it every time they fill up 
the tank, every time they open their electric bill, and every time they 
stand in the grocery aisle deciding what they can afford.
  While Donald Trump wages a war of choice in Iran, pushes a $1 
billion-slush fund for his buddies, and fights for a royal ballroom in 
the White House, working families back home are being forced to make 
impossible choices.
  Gas prices in Hawaii are now averaging $5.65 a gallon. Food prices 
keep climbing. Electricity costs are expected to surge even higher, and 
families are deciding whether they can afford groceries, medicine, 
rent, or the drive to work.
  This is the cost of indifference.
  Instead of lowering costs, this administration is making it worse 
with tariff and trade wars and blocking renewable energy projects that 
would help Hawaii build real energy independence and bring bills and 
costs down.
  It is time to end this reckless war, lower costs, and put working 
people first.

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