The U.S. Senate voted today to pass its budget bill. The Senate version of the bill claws back grant funding aiding the transition to a clean energy economy and upholds a rollback of clean energy and advanced manufacturing tax credits passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. The budget bill puts 2 million jobs within the country’s burgeoning clean energy manufacturing footprint at risk. No Democratic Senators supported the bill. 

The U.S. House of Representatives passed its version of the bill in May in a nearly party line vote. The House bill presented stringent provisions that would effectively kill the job-creating investments in the Inflation Reduction Act by rendering the law’s tax credits for clean energy and advanced manufacturing unusable and sunsetting them early. Several Republicans in the House pleaded with the Senate to preserve the job-creating clean energy and manufacturing tax credits, despite voting for the bill themselves. The Senate GOP decided to double down on killing jobs.  

In response to the Senate vote, the BlueGreen Alliance released the following statement from Executive Director Jason Walsh: 

“With this vote the GOP reaffirmed its deep commitment to screwing over workers in favor of appeasing Donald Trump and his billionaire friends. This bill will put working people out of jobs, reverse a manufacturing revitalization that was underway, take a sledgehammer to American competitiveness in growing global markets, and drive up energy costs at a time when people are already struggling, all so millionaires and billionaires can get even richer. It’s disgraceful.”