Donald Trump achieved a major political and policy victory on Thursday when the U.S. House of Representatives passed what he calls his “Big Beautiful Bill.” The less-creative name is the budget reconciliation bill, which presidents for years have used to implement large parts of their agenda. (That’s how we got “Obamacare.”)
The bill includes many of Trump’s economic policy promises, such as tax cuts, but also rolls back much of the “green” energy and climate policies the Biden administration imposed via the Inflation Reduction Act.
Join Heartland’s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, H. Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and special guest Steve Milloy LIVE at 1 p.m. ET for Episode #58 of The Climate Realism Show. We’ll break down the good, the bad, and the disappointing in the Big Beautiful Bill. We’ll also cover the Crazy Climate News of the Week and answer your questions in the chat.
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Story Tip: Godfather of climate science decries Trump plan to shut Nasa lab above Seinfeld diner: ‘It’s crazy’ | Environment | The Guardian
Friday funny?
Perched above the New York City diner made famous by the TV show Seinfeld, Tom’s Restaurant, a small research laboratory became, improbably, crucial to humanity’s understanding of our changing climate and of the universe itself.
I have not seen a summary of all of the details of the 1,000+ page bill, but from what I’ve read it terminates the green energy subsidies, and reduces or eliminates most of the “climate” related activities funded by the Federal government. Of course, the Dems are howling, but there’s nothing they can do about it.
There is still some haggling to be done in the Senate, with individual Senators demanding this or that concession to get their vote, the same as what was concluded this week in the House.
What does not yet appear to be included in this bill is a specific revocation of climate regulatory authority under the Clean Air Act, which is going to be the ultimate solution to the green scam. That will also have to be a reconciliation bill, and two such bills are allowed by Congressional rules each year. So maybe the “somewhat smaller but still beautiful bill” will take care of that. Then Congress gets another two shots at it next fiscal year before the 2026 mid terms which Dems are poised to win back the House, putting an end to any more climate reforms by Congress.
Did you get that 2026 mid term results from a model ensemble?
it is quite disappointing actually. nothing is eliminated. the solar tax credits will be phased out in 2029, when somebody else will be president, so things remain as is. on top of that senators promise to push that deadline to 2032, so the subsidy will surely stay. big talk, but zero action.
“Story Tip”
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/trump-and-gops-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-just-created-federal-car-tax-green
Well if New Zealand along with the Trump administration are winding back the net zero fantasy the recent drubbing of Conservatives by Labor in the Oz Federal election means it’s slushfunding fickles as usual. The election was largely an auction of red ink goodies that played right into Labor’s hands and the best that could be said about the Coalition was Labor lite with the net zero plumping for an overturn of a nuclear energy ban and build nuclear power stations instead of more fickles.
Basically the city based Liberal Party side of the Coalition tried to play it safe with the city latte set while the country/regional National Party side bit their tongue but after the result they’ve had enough of going along with economic folly-
Nationals will not re-enter Coalition agreement | Watch
Presumably they’ll be a lot more vocal as climate realists now holding Albanese Bowen and Co to account and it will be interesting to see to what extent they can coalesce a Farage type Reform movement around them going forward. They’ll have plenty of ammunition to do that with and clear air to attack Labor who’ve lined up some big problems for themselves with promises that budget deficit spending belies.