House Passes Bill That Would Gut Biden’s Climate Law

This morning, the House of Representatives passed Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act,” which takes a sledgehammer to Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), a law that created hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs and over billions in green energy investments across the nation.

The reconciliation bill enshrines Trump’s 2017 tax cuts into law and pays for those same cuts by gutting programs like Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), along with clean energy tax credits while ramping up oil and gas leasing. While the House voted 215-214 to pass the bill, the measure will face another legislative showdown at the Senate.

Biden signed the IRA in 2022, a landmark bill that provided nearly $400 billion towards climate action, the largest environmental investment in American history. In less than two and a half years since the bill’s passage, more than 400,000 new clean energy jobs were created and over $422 billion in investments across 48 states and Puerto Rico were made, Climate Power reported in January.

In August 2024, 18 Republican House members asked Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to protect the IRA’s clean energy tax credits, which delivered major economic benefits — especially to red states — according to a Yale Climate Connections analysis. By Thursday, however, it appeared that the House Republicans caved under pressure to President Trump’s agenda to “drill, baby, drill” and embrace Big Oil amid the climate crisis.

“Now, it’s time for our friends in the United States Senate to get to work, and send this Bill to my desk AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.

The president’s “Big Beautiful Bill Act” would be a massive hit to both companies and everyday Americans, according to think tank Energy Innovation, leading to the loss of 830,000 jobs by 2030 and spiking consumer energy costs by $16 billion in 2030.