Republicans spent four years railing against former President Joe Biden’s use of Washington’s money and regulatory heft to promote wind farms, solar panels and electric cars.
Now President Donald Trump is wielding the same mighty federal arsenal on behalf of oil, natural gas, coal and nuclear power — and his party is cheering along.
The result is that the GOP is embracing the same style of big government intervention in the energy markets for which they slammed Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act — mirroring the ways that Trump has reshaped Republican long-standing orthodoxies on matters such as trade and international alliances.
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