In March 2025 Breakthrough Energy — the climate organization Bill Gates founded in 2015 — laid off dozens of employees and shut down its U.S. and European public-policy and advocacy teams, retreating from the lobbying work that had helped pass the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act. The cuts, affecting more than three dozen staff including senior leaders, came as the Trump administration moved to boost fossil fuels and Republicans weighed rolling back clean-energy tax credits. Breakthrough Energy said it would refocus on its investment arms — Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Catalyst, and Fellows — signaling a shift from climate-policy advocacy toward funding technology directly.