Republicans in Congress are facing pressure from a former senior official with the Department of Energy to help facilitate the release of more than $40 billion worth of clean energy loans committed under the Biden administration.

Jennifer Downing, former chairwoman of the Energy Infrastructure Reinvestment Program, one of the Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office’s four main loan programs, appealed to lawmakers in the House and Senate in a letter last week to help advance deals that she said could advance the Trump administration’s goals of energy dominance.