Clean energy cash gushing into red states puts GOP senators in a bind

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The Trump tax bill passed by the House would wipe out hundreds of billions of dollars for solar, wind and other projects in Republican districts.

Donald Trump campaigned last year on reversing what he called the “Green New Scam,” but Republican senators now must grapple with the reality behind the slogan: cutting hundreds of billions of dollars of clean energy subsidies that are flowing to their own states.

The House advanced a tax measure Thursday that sets the stage for an epic lobbying battle in the Senate over the future of U.S. energy. Factories that would manufacture solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and other crucial pieces of America’s energy future as envisioned by former president Joe Biden and Democrats are on the chopping block.

Climate advocates are mobilizing against the legislation, warning that it threatens to cede the United States’ leadership role in global efforts to combat climate change. They plan to pressure Republican senators by citing home-state economic damage.

In all, the bill would take away $522 billion that is scheduled to be injected into local economies across the country.

“The majority of the government spending is creating jobs and manufacturing capacity in red states,” said Jason Bordoff, the founding director of the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. “So this puts Republicans, generally and now in the Senate, in the position of having to choose whether to support the party line or maintain support for government programs that are creating a lot of economic activity in their states.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/05/23/senate-clean-energy-tax-credits/

[FadedMullet]

1. Too much to hope for, I know, but also have to explain how they voted against it in the first place.

[BComplex]

2. In my opinion, this was Biden's winning chess gambit. He believed in green energy! He knew the republicans

would hate it and try to get rid of it...partly for the oil/coal/gas companies, and partly because they still have to act like there's no such thing as climate change so they won't look like idiots. So, he put a bunch of these jobs in the red states. Senators and congresspeople voting to get rid of it would turn their voters/constituents against them.

Brilliant.

I was mad about it at the time that he was benefitting red states so much, but now I realize how seriously important it was/is.

[Skittles]

3. JFC

clean energy HELPS AMERICA so they need to ask themselves whether to SUPPORT THEIR COUNTRY or continue to goosestep to DONALD FUCKING TRUMP