Today, House Republicans passed the Senate’s version of the FY2025 budget blueprint, a plan that will shower billionaires and big corporations with massive tax giveaways while slashing essential health care and food assistance programs. It also puts the clean energy investments that are lowering household energy bills and bringing manufacturing jobs back home at risk. 

In response, Evergreen Action Executive Director Lena Moffitt released the following statement:

“Taking Trump’s advice to ‘close your eyes and get there,’ House Republicans just voted to advance a budget that robs working families so Elon Musk can buy another private jet. Their plan paves the way for devastating cuts to clean energy investments that are powering America’s manufacturing resurgence and lowering household bills to bankroll trillions in tax giveaways for billionaires and big corporations. It also puts critical programs like Medicaid and food assistance on life support, threatening essential services for millions who rely on them.

“Trump claims he wants to bring manufacturing back. But his chaos-fueled tariff threats and this reckless budget do the opposite. His day-to-day trade whims create uncertainty for businesses trying to build and hire here at home. And now, House Republicans are piling on by threatening the very clean energy investments actually supporting domestic manufacturing jobs and cutting costs. You can’t claim to stand with working families while destabilizing their futures and threatening their survival. This budget is about one thing: Rewarding the billionaire donors and corporate interests who helped Trump gain power, no matter the cost to everyone else. And the American people won’t be fooled.”

Earlier this year, a national poll from YouGov revealed that 61 percent of voters want to keep the investments driving America’s growing clean energy sector, while only 18 percent support repealing them. When asked about specific programs and tax credits, voters overwhelmingly backed each by two-thirds or more, from incentives to bolster clean energy supply to consumer rebates that help lower energy bills to investments in solar manufacturing. You can find additional key takeaways from the poll here. 

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