House GOP Budget Proposals Would Devastate Clean Energy Progress, Environmental Justice Initiatives
L4GG Warns of Direct Assault on Clean Air, Clean Water, and American Communities Through Proposed Cuts to IRA and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
WASHINGTON (May 13, 2025) — In response to the House Ways and Means Committee's draft tax bill and the broader Republican budget reconciliation proposals that would drastically cut clean energy and environmental justice programs, Jillian Blanchard, Vice President of the Climate Change and Environmental Justice Program at Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG), issued the following statement:
“The text for Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill is a direct assault on clean air, clean water, and the right of every American to live in a safe and healthy environment. It’s not just a budget cut—it’s a reckless, lawless attempt to strip funding from programs that Congress has supported on a bipartisan basis for decades. Republicans are trying to wipe out billions in climate funding that is creating jobs, reducing energy costs for everyday Americans, and building resilience in communities devastated by storms.
They’re gutting clean energy tax credits across the board—slashing support for solar, wind, electric vehicles, home efficiency, and domestic manufacturing. By weaponizing the budget process, Republicans are using a sledgehammer and pretending it’s a scalpel, proposing complex eligibility measures and abruptly phasing out programs that will raise costs, kill jobs, and freeze new investments communities are just beginning to realize.
This is a radical maneuver to destroy our advances on clean energy and environmental justice, cloaked in a misleading, bad-faith GOP argument that it only eliminates duplicative programs. It will have devastating, lasting consequences for our environment, our economy, and our health, allowing polluters and their allies in Congress to reverse decades of progress.””