This Republican wants to resurrect Biden-style green government handouts

Republican Pennsylvania Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick told Politico’s E&E News that he is looking to introduce legislation that would resurrect green energy incentives recently cut.

President Donald Trump signed the One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBBA) into law on July 4, 2025, celebrating the cuts and phase outs it made to Biden-era wind, solar and electric vehicle (EV) tax credits. The OBBBA eliminated hundreds of billions of dollars in green energy tax credits from former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that he signed into law in August 2022.

Fitzpatrick was one of two House Republicans to split with their party and vote against the OBBBA, and he told E&E News that many of his Republican colleagues “struggled” with their vote over the green tax credit cuts.

“I am taking the lead because I did vote ‘no’ on the package,” Fitzpatrick told E&E News regarding his plans to renew the green tax credit fight. “Renewables are critical in energy independence, which is a national security issue. I don’t understand the perspective. … If you want to lower energy costs, you got to utilize every single source you have.”

Fitzpatrick’s office did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment.

The Pennsylvania lawmaker noted that he was still seeking input from various labor groups and adjusting the bill details, according to E&E News. Fitzpatrick said he believed many of his colleagues would support the bill if “given a standalone choice” on extending green energy credits.

Twenty-one House Republicans wrote a joint letter to House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith urging Congress’ chief tax writer to preserve the credits in March 2025. Additionally, four moderate Republican Senators also called for preservation of the credits.

Notably, red districts largely benefitted from the IRA tax credits, according to data from the green energy group E2.

Critics of the green energy tax credits argue that they distort markets while favoring less reliable resources at the taxpayer’s expense.

“The government needs to get out of the business of picking winners and losers, both in industry and in the marketplace,” Institute for Energy Research President Tom Tyle previously told the DCNF, arguing that tax credits attached to the IRA were “a glaring example of policies that hurt American families by increasing the cost of new vehicles and creating inflation that is stealing money out of their pockets.”

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