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DEMS STAB AMERICA IN THE DARK: Senate Elites Kill 417-3 Electricity Relief Bill to Maximize Pain Before November By Jonathan Gregory Washington, D.C. - September 25, 2026 In a rare moment of actual governing, Republicans led by Sen. Jon Husted rammed through a straightforward bill to lower electricity prices for working families, and the House passed it 417-3. Support stretched from the Freedom Caucus to members of the Squad. The measure targeted the soaring power bills crushing households after years of energy policy that favored ideology over affordability. It was the kind of common-sense legislation President Trump has demanded since taking office: cut costs, expand supply, stop punishing the people who actually pay the bills. Senate Democrats blocked it anyway. They offered no competing plan that would deliver cheaper electricity this year. They simply refused to let the bill advance. The vote was not about the text of the legislation. It was about timing. With November approaching, keeping prices high and voters angry served a clearer political purpose than delivering relief. That is the tell. A party that lectures the country about “the people” just killed a bill that almost the entire House, left, right, and center, supported. Everyday citizens who heat their homes, run small businesses, and watch their electric bills climb are treated as collateral. The elites in the Senate would rather inflict maximum pain going into the election than admit that cheaper energy is popular, bipartisan, and good for the country. Republicans, with Trump setting the agenda, put the bill on the floor. Democrats chose the dark.