On Wednesday, House Republican leaders unveiled a budget proposal that would roll back all federal spending enacted since 2021, including the $370 billion in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) allocated to address climate change.
Some Republican House members have targeted the climate and clean energy programs specifically. Rep. Bob Good, R-Va., a member of the right-wing Freedom Caucus, told Roll Call on Tuesday thatMajority Leader Steve Scalise,Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., and Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and McCarthy joined House Budget Committee Chair Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas,introduced the bill on Wednesday.
The statement made two references to Biden’s policies making the U.S. “dependent on China,” arguing that their proposal will reduce that dependency. Republicans have repeatedly expressed concern that increasing U.S. adoption of electric vehicles and solar panels will leave the country reliant on China, which leads the world in manufacturing of those products and mining the rare minerals required for their components.
“The market signal that these tax incentives have played has borne out, in terms of more than 200 new [utility-scale clean energy] projects coming online, because of the market signal,” Melinda Pierce, legislative director of the Sierra Club, told Yahoo News. “Pull those back and they become a risky proposition. The chilling effect is going to be immediate.”
On Thursday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., reintroduced an ambitious bill to address climate change called the"Green New Deal." At a press conference outside the Capitol, she“When it came to the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act, we started to fight,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “We said ‘we are not going to take crumbs, and that we’re not going to settle for that. We need bold, big climate action and we need it now.
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