The House is poised to pass the Republican tax, energy and border spending megabill after lawmakers say President Donald Trump promised to strictly enforce rules around green energy credits.
After a nail-biter of a procedural vote Thursday morning, lawmakers continued debating the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act,” including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), who started a speech blasting the bill before dusk and continued speaking for hours.
“It’s an all-out and unnecessary assault on the clean energy tax credits,” Jeffries said in an early part of his speech, which broke the record for the longest ever in the House.
“Because of the attack on clean energy jobs, on the clean energy economy, all the economic development that had already been set in motion, often in districts represented by our Republican colleagues in Republican-led states — red states — by some estimates, millions of jobs are going to be lost.”
