Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and John Curtis (R-Utah) have placed holds on three of President Donald Trump’s nominees to the Treasury Department, a significant escalation of the battle between key Republican lawmakers and the administration over renewable energy tax breaks in the sprawling megalaw.
The actions follow a so-far unsuccessful effort by a handful of Senate Republicans to meet with Treasury Department officials to express their unhappiness with the agency’s expected clampdown on wind and solar projects’ use of the tax credits. Trump ordered the restrictions in an executive order issued days after Congress enacted the law July 3 — much to the dismay of the senators whose yes votes had been crucial to getting the president’s top legislative priority through the Senate.
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