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Clean energy cash gushing into red states puts GOP senators in a bind

The Washington Post · last updated

Donald Trump campaigned last year on reversing what he called the “Green New Scam,” but Republican senators now must grapple with the reality behind the slogan: cutting hundreds of billions of dollars of clean energy subsidies that are flowing to their own states.

The House advanced a tax measure Thursday that sets the stage for an epic lobbying battle in the Senate over the future of U.S. energy. Factories that would manufacture solar panels, wind turbines, batteries and other crucial pieces of America’s energy future as envisioned by former president Joe Biden and Democrats are on the chopping block.

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