House Republicans Have Passed a Bill to Gut the IRA. In the end, none of the House Republicans who had voiced concerns about ending energy tax credits were willing to go against party leadership.

https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22052025/inside-clean-energy-republican-ira-repeal/

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rauls4@lemm.ee · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Almost as if they were all a bunch of spineless cowards.

KingGordon@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1y

FTFY- Almost as if they were all a bunch of spineless cowards batshit cunts.

ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 1y (2 replies)

Last guy I knew who tried to gut the IRA blew up

Gobo@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Yea. Irish Republican Army was the first thing that came to mind...

faux@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 1y

Sing up the 'RA!

Reverendender@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1y (2 replies)

All of Congress can go die in a fire. They are not serving the public good.

henfredemars@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They’re just here to collect rent and do some insider trading.

captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org · 6 pts · 1y (1 reply)

If you live in one of their states you better be calling them 10x a day this month telling them they are gonna be fired and homeless if they pass this bullshit bill.

ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y

Yeah! They'll have to hit "delete all" on their voicemail extra hard!

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y

Before the vote, I spoke with David Spence, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, to try to get a sense of the factors that were most likely to influence each member.

“They’re feeling pressure to go along with whatever Trump wants and whatever the leadership wants,” he said.

lol

theacharnian@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 1y

Come out ye black and tans...

veganpizza69@lemmy.vg · 1 pts · 1y

Their previous excuse was that Musk was going fund their competitors in primaries. Didn't Musk back out recently?