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A REMINDER OF HOW TRUMP SCREWED YOU: Trump’s Surging LNG Exports Cost US Consumers $12 Billion in Just 9 Months

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  After departing from Lake Charles Port in the United States, the liquefied natural gas tanker BW MAGNOLIA unloads US LNG at the Revithoussa terminal in Megara, Greece, on December 1, 2025.  (Photo by Nicolas Koutsokostas/NurPhoto via Getty Images) Trump’s Surging LNG Exports  Cost US Consumers  $12 Billion in Just 9 Months “Trump explicitly promised voters he would slash utility bills by half within the first year, yet in the first nine months of his term, they surged,” said the author of Public Citizen’s new report. Underscoring expert warnings that exporting liquefied natural gas not only worsens the  climate emergency  but also drives up energy prices for Americans,  Public Citizen  revealed Tuesday that as  LNG  exports surged under the  Trump administration , US households paid $12 billion more in utility bills from January through September than they did last year. In other words, “the costs borne by residential consumers in...