A growing number of House Republicans are urging their party to protect the clean energy tax credits in Democrats’ climate law — and warning they may oppose the party’s budget bill if those incentives get axed.
In the letter shared exclusively with POLITICO, 21 House Republicans whose districts have drawn billions in new investments because of the Inflation Reduction Act incentives said developing clean energy was critical for the U.S. to meet President Donald Trump’s goal to become “energy dominant,” and they could block their colleagues’ efforts to gut the law to help pay for their massive tax package.
“We have 20-plus members saying, ‘Don’t just think you can repeal these things and have our support,’” said Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.), who organized the letter.
The growing pushback against eliminating the IRA’s tax credits and other incentives — which have largely benefited GOP-controlled districts — will complicate efforts by House Republicans to slash federal outlays without shrinking Medicaid spending as they seek to offset trillions of dollars in tax cuts in their budget bill. And it comes as the Trump administration faces new pushback from its effort to claw back billions in obligated spending under that law.
