The incoming Republican governing trifecta will mean a radically different energy and environment agenda in Washington, to be set by party leaders and committee chairs with the help of top staffers.
Those aides will have pivotal, if unheralded, roles in calling up hearings and crafting bills that will come to define the GOP’s legacy for the next two years.
Chief among those efforts will be two budget reconciliation bills to address energy, immigration, defense and taxes. That legislation will include Inflation Reduction Act clawbacks.
“We are actively opposed to provisions in the IRA under the committee’s jurisdiction,” said Adam Tomlinson, staff director for incoming Senate Environment and Public Works Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.). “So we will be working with President Trump and other Republicans to roll back that legislation.”
