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/