President Donald Trump issued an executive order to freeze IRA funding soon after he took office, and is expected to urge the Republican-controlled Congress to make cuts to the legislation as lawmakers approach their March 14 shutdown deadline.
Since Trump’s election, the clean energy industry has been pushing for the president to consider the IRA’s private sector benefits while urging lawmakers to protect the IRA investments in their districts. “In the last two years, 70-80% of all federal clean energy investments have flowed to Republican districts, and 90% of all those investments are in the manufacturing sector,” SEIA noted in a Wednesday release.
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