Overnight, Senate Republicans released updated text of their multi-trillion-dollar proposal to give massive tax giveaways to the rich. The revised text continues the MAGA crusade against domestic clean energy, cutting short credits for clean energy and manufacturing, and imposing overly burdensome requirements to functionally make what clean energy tax credits remain unworkable. The Senate parliamentarian rightly stripped provisions that do not meet reconciliation rules (including EPA tailpipe emissions standards, and a pay-to-play scheme for liquified natural gas exports). But the parliamentarian’s changes will provide little relief for America’s clean energy and manufacturing industries amid the onslaught of economic sabotage brought on by this legislation—and working people will be stuck holding the bill.

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

“Senate Republicans have pushed the rules to the limit to sabotage the clean energy boom on behalf of corporate polluters who are terrified of cheaper, faster-to-build competition—working people be damned. After all, corruption is the price of doing business for the fossil fuel CEOs who bought access to the politicians writing this bill. It’s no surprise that Republicans tried, and failed, to sneak provisions into their billionaire giveaway bill to let cars pollute more, and legalize bribery for the gas industry. But even after the parliamentarian shot down their most egregious abuses of reconciliation rules, this updated text is still catastrophic. Republicans are knowingly attempting to tank America’s clean energy and manufacturing industries despite billions of dollars of investments and hundreds of thousands of jobs in their own states. At the same time, they’re selling out our public lands on the cheap to prop up the profits of their corporate funders. If they succeed, it’s their own voters who will lose job opportunities, pay skyrocketing bills, and face a worsening climate crisis while their donors cash in.”