Hard-line House conservatives have spent days calling for a more aggressive repeal of the Democrats’ 2022 climate law, trying to stiff-arm a bloc of moderates who have spent months signaling an interest in saving a range of clean energy incentives.
Everyone is about to find out which camp will claim victory.
“There are a lot of folks jockeying for a position right now,” said moderate Rep. Nick LaLota (R-N.Y.), noting recent meetings between House leaders and the far-right House Freedom Caucus. “And I think the details of some of those discussions are being floated amongst folks who might not see the world in the same way.”
He said he had seen some potential changes to more aggressively scrap the Inflation Reduction Act — worth hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy tax breaks in all — but declined to opine on language that’s not yet public.
