<div id="readability-page-1">Donald Trump has comprehensively failed to meet a key election promise to slash Americans’ energy bills in half within the first year of his presidency, with power prices instead surging across the US. The average household electricity bill in the US was 6.7% more expensive in 2025 compared with the previous year, according to a Guardian analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Department of Energy’s statistical...</div>

<p>Donald Trump has failed to fulfill his election promise to reduce energy bills by half within his first year in office. Instead, electricity prices have surged, with the average household bill in the US increasing by 6.7% in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to a Guardian analysis of data from the Energy Information Administration (EIA).</p>

How Trump’s promise to slash energy bills in half has failed across the US