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The U.S. Senate met through the weekend and overnight June 30 to work on Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill, passing it 51-50 with Vice President JD Vance casting the tiebreaking vote.
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Senators working through the weekend on Trump's “One Big Beautiful Bill” delivered renewable energy supporters an unexpected and unpleasant surprise in the form of proposed taxes that likely would stymie completion of projects already in the works.
DOE
Senators asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright about project spending his department has put under review or already cut when he testified about the Trump administration’s 2026 budget request.
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The Senate Finance Committee released its proposal for the reconciliation bill, which cuts clean energy tax credits off entirely starting Jan. 1, 2028, but includes some changes from the version of the legislation that passed the House in May.
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Government job cuts have been a major theme of the Trump administration, and while DOE has faced some cuts former officials say are already significant, many more employees are going to leave in the months to come.
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Clean energy and transportation project cancellations continue as 2025 rolls on, with E2's analysis of public announcements showing investments of $4.5 billion abandoned in April alone.
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The House of Representatives narrowly passed President Donald Trump’s “One, Big Beautiful Bill” that would extend tax cuts for individuals and render energy tax credits effectively useless.
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Nuclear energy got at least a temporary boost as the reconciliation bill hashed out in the House of Representatives spared it from most of the policy changes aimed at other forms of clean energy.
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The U.S. Senate approved a resolution under the Congressional Review Act that would end California's EV mandate.
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Efforts by U.S. House committees to mark up the “One, Big Beautiful Bill” that includes most of President Donald Trump’s legislative goals could so complicate energy tax credit provisions as to make those instruments difficult to use at all.
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