Some Republicans are angry about climate law cuts. Will they tank the GOP megabill?

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Source: Politico

05/15/2025 07:30 PM EDT


Hill Republican defenders of clean energy tax incentives in the Democrats’ 2022 climate law will soon have to decide how far to push their demands.

For months, they have been firing off letters urging leaders to spare at least some of the credits to benefit solar energy, nuclear, hydrogen and other technologies. Speaker Mike Johnson promised to use a “scalpel” and not a “sledgehammer” to the suite of green subsidies included in the Inflation Reduction Act.

But in the tax portion of the GOP’s megabill, approved by the Ways and Means Committee earlier this week, the credits would in fact receive a bludgeoning, with a slew of climate tax credits now slated for phase-downs or full-out repeals that would disrupt clean energy projects across the country, including in red districts and states. And it’s exactly what many Republicans feared would happen.

“I hate to say — it’s not as bad as I thought it was going to be, but it’s still pretty bad,” said Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), who is the co-chair of the House Bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus and has been at the forefront of advocating for the credits to be preserved amid the GOP’s takeover of Washington this year.

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Much of the climate projects WERE going to red states (and even red districts in blue/purple states - mainly because they were rural and had the space to build plants).