{"id":9509,"date":"2025-05-22T01:01:54","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/moderate-republican-balks-over-ira-rollbacks-in-megabill\/"},"modified":"2025-05-22T01:01:54","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T01:01:54","slug":"moderate-republican-balks-over-ira-rollbacks-in-megabill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/moderate-republican-balks-over-ira-rollbacks-in-megabill\/","title":{"rendered":"Moderate Republican balks over IRA rollbacks in megabill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>A key moderate Republican is balking over the IRA piece of the megabill after getting briefed on changes made to placate conservatives. <\/p>\n<p>Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) said he&#8217;s \u201cnot happy\u201d with the changes to the IRA tax credits and wouldn\u2019t commit his vote as GOP leaders race toward a potential floor vote as soon as tonight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think these things I&#8217;m hearing could end up killing a lot of projects that have been announced all over the country,\u201d he told reporters after huddling with other moderates in Speaker Mike Johnson&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m waiting for final text on the manager&#8217;s amendment,\u201d Garbarino said. \u201cI have not seen it yet, but it was not what I had hoped it would be.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Garbarino is a leading defender of some IRA tax credits. But he was in Italy over the weekend for Pope Leo XIV\u2019s inauguration when GOP leaders agreed to a tentative deal with GOP hardliners to speed up the IRA tax credit phase out.<\/p>\n<p>However, other moderates like Reps. Juan Ciscomani, Jen Kiggans and Mike Lawler left the huddle feeling more optimistic about both the IRA changes and about moving up Medicaid work requirements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s still things that are being worked through,\u201d Lawler conceded. \u201cObviously you\u2019ll have a final conferencing at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Energy Secretary Chris Wright <a href=\"https:\/\/subscriber.politicopro.com\/article\/2025\/05\/gop-moderates-detail-progress-on-clean-energy-tax-credits-00364256\" target=\"_blank\">phoned into the meeting<\/a> to help \u201cbrainstorm\u201d ideas as they near the release of new text for their mega reconciliation bill that could cut clean energy tax credits created by Democrats\u2019 climate law, according to Ciscomani.<\/p>\n<p><i>Garrett Downs contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A key moderate Republican is balking over the IRA piece of the megabill after getting briefed on changes made to placate conservatives. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) said he&#8217;s \u201cnot happy\u201d with the changes to the IRA tax credits and wouldn\u2019t commit his vote as GOP leaders race toward a potential floor vote as soon as [&hellip;]<\/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-9509","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\/9509","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=9509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}