‘Outright Massacre’: Senate GOP Takes Sledgehammer To Biden’s Green Energy Subsidies
The Senate has dealt with a series of blows to solar and wind energy in the latest version of the “big, beautiful” bill of President Donald Trump – by removing a page outside the Républicains de la Chambre for credits on green energy tax credits promulgated under former President Joe Biden.
The new Senate proposal would increase the deadline for solar and wind projects in the hope of qualifying for investment production and tax credits by forcing them to produce electricity by the end of 2027. Additional reductions in green energy tax credits follow the president’s public property against the initial proposal of the upper Chamber, which delayed the termination of solar alternatives and wind turbines. (Related: Trump calls Waffling Congress to crush the green “scam” of Biden)
“Windmills, and the rest of this” waste “, are the most expensive and ineffective energy in the world, destroys the beauty of the environment and is 10 times more expensive than any other energy,” wrote Trump in a social social article on June 21. “It is time to deviate, finally, from this madness !!!”
The revised bill of the Upper Chamber would also create a new tax on wind and solar projects whose components come from foreign concerns, such as China.
The Democrats of the Senate have referred to the creation of a new excise tax penalizing the dependence of renewable industry with regard to Chinese materials as “economic self-sabotage” and a “pure and simple massacre” for the solar and wind industry.
The Republican Senator of UTAH, Mike Lee, was one of the many GOP senators pushing the upper chamber to aggressively suppress the solar and wind tax credits in the historic bill of the president. The Utah republican promotes a wholesale abrogation of green energy subsidies, although the congress is likely to stop in addition to the opposition of the moderate republicans.
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– Mike Lee (@basedmikelee) June 27, 2025
North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis told journalists on Saturday that the Senate’s finance panel’s decision to accelerate the end of solar and wind subsidies by the end of 2027 was “disappointing”. He also suggested that not maintaining tax alternatives of green energy would have negative economic consequences for his state.
Tillis is one of the many GOP senators who is committed to voting against the president’s tax and immigration bill, citing legislation reforms with Medicaid.
Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and the former government’s efficiency department (DOGE), the Senate Republicans castigated for having made Green Energy Subsidies back into their proposal, accusing GOP senators of having put “millions of jobs” on blocking.
“The Senate’s last bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and will cause immense strategic damages to our country!” Musk, the founder of the electric vehicle manufacturer, Tesla, wrote on his social media platform, X. “Very crazy and destructive. It gives documents to the industries of the past while seriously damaging the industries of the future. ”
Supporters at the end of green energy grants argued that the messaging of the green energy industry has revealed its dependence on public funds in order to be profitable.
“If, as supporters of IRA [Inflation Reduction Act] complain, the repeal of these subsidies “kill” their industry, so perhaps it should not exist in the first place, “said American Energy Alliance, Tom Pyle, in a statement.
The Conservative House Freedom Caucus (HFC) also urged the Senate to adopt the language adopted by the Chamber which put the solar and wind credits on a faster path to termination.
Several HFC members, including Republican representatives Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, have suggested that they would not vote for the Senate proposal if she had not joined the language of the Chamber accelerating the dismissal of subsidies with green energy.
“It must leave,” Norman told DCNF in an interview on Thursday. “The president wants this to leave. He wants to abolish them all. We agree with that. “
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