Crippling Clean-Energy Tax Credits Won’t Fly, GOP Senators Say

May 22, 2025, 9:52 PM UTC

The House’s draconian cuts to former President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law won’t fly in the Senate, key Republican senators said Thursday.

Just hours after the House narrowly passed a massive tax and spending bill gutting key clean-energy tax incentives, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said the Senate was planning its own effort.

“They give us a good product to work with but we have senators who want to write our own bill,” Thune said.

Other Republican senators said they were already planning to make changes.

Softening aggressive phaseouts of key tax credits for clean electricity production and ...

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