{"id":10843,"date":"2025-07-01T13:31:47","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:31:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-clean-energy-amendment-wont-get-a-vote\/"},"modified":"2025-07-01T13:31:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T13:31:47","slug":"gop-clean-energy-amendment-wont-get-a-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-clean-energy-amendment-wont-get-a-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP clean-energy amendment won’t get a vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Sen. Joni Ernst<\/a> said her closely watched amendment seeking to maintain wind and solar tax credits will not get a Senate vote before the anctipated passage of the GOP megabill<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to let us\u201d offer the amendment, the Iowa Republican told reporters Tuesday morning as GOP leaders rushed to put finishing touches on the bill. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of stuff that went on overnight that kind of waylaid our plans.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ernst’s amendment<\/a> would echo an earlier proposal<\/a> to phase down the Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>\u2019s clean electricity production and investment tax credits for solar and wind generation projects by linking to when projects begin construction. It would also eliminate an excise tax proposed<\/a> by Republicans that would penalize any wind and solar project placed into service after 2027 if it includes material assistance from China or other prohibited foreign entities.<\/p>\n

Ernst was joined on the amendment by Sens. Lisa Murkowski <\/a>(R-Alaska) and Chuck Grassley <\/a>(R-Iowa). <\/p>\n

It’s possible that the amendment or part of it could be included in a final “wraparound” amendment GOP leaders are expected to offer ahead of a final vote. Murkowski, considered a swing vote on the overall bill, was in intensive talks early Tuesday morning with Majority Leader John Thune and other Senate leaders.<\/p>\n

Josh Siegel,\u00a0Kelsey Tamborrino\u00a0and\u00a0James Bikales contributed to this report.<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Joni Ernst said her closely watched amendment seeking to maintain wind and solar tax credits will not get a Senate vote before the anctipated passage of the GOP megabill. \u201cI don\u2019t think they\u2019re going to let us\u201d offer the amendment, the Iowa Republican told reporters Tuesday morning as GOP leaders rushed to put finishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}