Opinion | Want to lead in AI? Then don’t kill wind and solar.

The Washington Post · last updated June 30, 2025 – 4:28 AM

Matt Eggers is a managing director at Prelude Ventures, a climate technology venture capital firm.

Republican leaders say they want to revive U.S. manufacturing and dominate artificial intelligence. Yet their recent drafts of the new “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill tell a different story. Their drive to roll back tax credits for wind, solar and battery factories, as well as to impose additional punitive taxes on wind and solar farms that use foreign materials as inputs, would set America severely back.

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