The Trump administration has cancelled or paid companies to walk away from multiple US offshore wind projects, including developments in the Northeast that would have generated clean electricity. Wind cancellations do eliminate planned union jobs in construction and ongoing operations, though broader claims about energy prices depend on whether fossil fuel alternatives become cheaper or more expensive going forward. Schumer frames this purely as negative, but Republican House members from coastal states have also raised concerns about the policy—suggesting this is genuinely contested territory rather than one-sided harm.