Audrey Streb
DCNF Energy Reporter
The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW) released its portion of the GOP’s reconciliation bill text late on Wednesday, which includes major cuts to green energy tax credits and initiatives enacted under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
The bill text calls for the repeal of unobligated IRA funds under the EPW’s purview. If the EPW GOP has its way, the “one, big beautiful” bill will also stall the implementation of the IRA’s methane emissions fee for a decade and repeal President Joe Biden’s final rule on tailpipe emission standards, a key plank of the Democrats’ de facto electric vehicle (EV) mandate.
“This legislative text puts in motion plans that Senate Republicans pledged to take, like stopping Democrats’ natural gas tax and rescinding unobligated dollars from the so-called Inflation Reduction Act,” Republican West Virginia Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, Chairman of the EPW, said Wednesday. “I look forward to working with my colleagues to move our legislative package forward to enact President Trump’s agenda, which the American people overwhelmingly support.” (RELATED: Senate Republicans Move To Nuke California EV Mandate Despite Procedural Hurdle)
EPW Bill Text by audreystreb on Scribd
Critics of the tailpipe rule characterized it as a de facto EV mandate because it would effectively force manufacturers to significantly increase their EV production over the next decade to be in compliance, while the methane fee has been described as a natural gas tax given that methane emissions are commonly associated with natural gas production and use.
“These unobligated funds from Democrats’ IRA were put towards duplicative and wasteful initiatives with little oversight or accountability to the American taxpayer,” a summary of EPW’s reconciliation text reads.
“Stopping Democrats’ natural gas tax is essential to American energy dominance and protects American energy producers and workers from a constraint on natural gas production that would lead to increased energy prices, job losses, and a boost to Russia’s production of natural gas,” the bill portion summary continues.
Though many GOP senators argue that IRA subsidies for green energy are wasteful and point to the fact that not a single Republican voted for the bill when it was passed in 2022, several senators are now expressing the desire to salvage or adjust some of the tax credits that House Republicans proposed to curb in May. With the GOP currently holding 53 Senate seats, just four Republican defections would be enough to derail the reconciliation package.
At least four GOP Senators have already signaled willingness to defend some of the IRA credits. Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, John Curtis of Utah, Thom Tillis of North Carolina, and Jerry Moran of Kansas wrote to Senate Majority Leader John Thune on April 10, arguing that “a wholesale repeal, or the termination of certain individual credits, would create uncertainty, jeopardizing capital allocation, long-term project planning, and job creation in the energy sector and across our broader economy.”
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Would eliminate porkbarrels that they support. Lets be clear. They didn’t have to vote in favor of the IRA trough in order to like the money.
RINO squishes are a threat.
The RINO’s are a threat to the freedoms of all of us if they insist on having their petty desires fulfilled.
If you vote against the Trump “Big, Beautiful Bill” then you are voting to hand over the United States to the Radical Democrats. That’s exactly what you are doing.
This vote is MUCH bigger than any portion of this bill.
If these Senators want taxpayers to pay the Senator’s windmill/solar benefactors, they can propose a new bill that incorporates this, and then see if they can get the votes.
Holding the Bill hostage for petty, political purposes is CRIMINAL when you consider that doing so is an existential threat to the American Republic and its future.
The Radical Democrats will destroy the United States if given the chance. Don’t give them the chance by holding this Bill hostage.
You will pay a political price if you do, but by then it may be too late to save the country from the authoritarian Democrats. They are close to taking over now, and will be much closer if the Republicans can’t get their act together and a failure to pass this Bill will be seen as just that.
Then the Democrats win back majorities in the House and Senate and the People of the United States will be totally screwed because of the stupid votes of a few selfish, ignorant Republicans who think their way is the only way.
Pass the Big, Beautiful Bill and Republicans can expect to gain seats in the House and Senate in 2026, which will nullify the votes of these ignorant RINO’s, and then Congress can pass laws to protect the vote from illegal aliens, which is the criminal Democrats latest gambit to give themselves political power in the United States in perpetuity.
This is not hyperbole. This is reality. We are on the edge of losing our country to very crazed Leftists and it won’t take much to swing the tide against the American people.
We have this one chance. We cannot blow it. There may be no coming back from this loss. We will then have a one-party system with the Democrats in control of all three branches of government and the ability to keep it that way forever. A Democrat Dictatorship is in our future if some Republicans don’t wise up.
It takes two to tango. Trump isn’t the only voice and his word is not final. You can blame RINOs all you want, but the very definition is squishy, and your version of it, here, really means you don’t want any voices heard but Trump’s.
The BBB is a joke. It doesn’t cut spending in any meaningful way. It doesn’t even attempt to address Social Security and Medicare.
Half the country hates Trump so much that they voted for the most inept candidate I can remember, even though polls show how much the public hates wokism, DEI, and the rest of everything the Democrats stand for. The BBB is just small potatoes when Trump stands a real chance of losing the House in 2026 and spending two years getting nothing done, and that leads to the real prospect of a fed up public bringing the Democrats back to the White House in 2028.
Your hyperbole about a Democrat Dictatorship is no more plausible and realistic than their hyperbole about a Trump Dictatorship.
If Trump really cared about winning 2026 and 2028, he’s stop alienating half the country. He’s done a fine job with rolling back greenies and wokies, and he’s doing an equally fine job of disrupting the economy and pissing off the same swing voters who gave him that puny 1.5% margin in 2024.
If 2026 goes Democrat, it will be all down to Trump. It sure won’t be because the public suddenly fell in love with wokies and greenies.
See my above comment about ‘poster child California’ before you start calling a Democrat Dictatorship hyperbole.
California is the poster child of that scenario.
Best news of the year!!!!
Yes, that’s the point. The greenies have been inserting uncertainty into the power grid for years. About time they got a taste of their own medicine.
Senate R majority is 3, yet 4 have IRA green subsidy repeal doubts. Not gonna happen. In fact, given the past week, I doubt OBBB will happen as advertised at all, as HFC has already given two adamant negatives (SALT, GND) to proposed Senate revisions that Senators have said are ‘mandatory’.
Now, there is also a lot of posturing going on. But were I Trump, would let the near inevitable politics play out, then clean house in 2026.
The House will almost certainly go Democrat in 2026. Midterms almost always go against the President, and voters don’t like their finances being messed with. Joe Biden’s inflation didn’t drop below 4% until June 2023, and 18 months later, with inflation still lowering, voters remembered. Trump’s margin was only 1.5% against possibly the most inept Presidential candidate I can remember. His 3 seat majority looks pretty vulnerable. I don’t see how Trump can get much at all done in his last two years. He’s pulled off some miracles before, but not always.
“The House will almost certainly go Democrat in 2026.”
Not if the Republicans pass the Big, Beautiful Bill. Then, Republicans will increase seats in the House and Senate.
If Republicans show themselves to be unable to pass the Bill and govern, then I think your prediction will be correct, and the People of the Untied States will be thoroughly screwed.
You can expect the Democrats to make much political hay out of any Republican failure. Republican good intentions or priciples won’t matter one wit. It will be downhill for Republicans and the Republic after that.
We might as well make Kamala Queen in that case. How would you like to be governed by Kamala and the Radical Left for the rest of your life? Four years of Biden was enough for me, and almost too much for the United States. Four more years with Kamala or someone similar would have put us underwater.
You’re delusional. The BBB has nothing to do with the historical reality that midterms usually go against the President, and that his tariffs are disrupting the economy and voters won’t forgive him for that.
Where’s the evidence that the tariffs are disrupting the economy? Our investments have completely recovered from the market dip a few months ago, wages are up, and inflation is down. I doubt most voters are feeling any pain from this alleged disruption unless they believe the media telling them the sky is falling
“enact President Trump’s agenda, which the American people overwhelmingly support.”
I’m pretty sure the consensus is 97%.
At LEAST, on the Right side, anyway!