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What ever is approved or not approved in the U.S. Senate’s vote on President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act , it’s clear where the President wants to focus when it comes to energy. It is not renewable energy sources.
Critics contend the bill will result in increased utility prices across the nation. It won approval Tuesday morning after a 27-hour blitz of amendments and the vote was 51-50 with Vice President JD Vance breaking the deadlock. It means the bill could be on track to have it sent to President Trump’s desk by the Fourth of July as he wanted. But it is dependent on what the House does with the amended version it had previously passed.
While Oklahoma U.S. Sens. James Lankford and Markwayne Mullin were supporters, three fellow Republicans were not: Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Rand Paul of Kentucky and Thom Tillis of North Carolina. They joined the 47 Democrats in voting “nay.”
The White House offered more support for fossil fuels. Over the weekend, President Trump declared, “We’re doing coal,” and went on to say solar energy projects were “ugly as hell.”
One of the provisions in the 900-plus page bill classifies coal as a critical mineral while others create new taxes on wind and solar projects. The bill also phases out energy tax credits faster than expected.
Others claimed that the bill will lead to the death of the wind industry, but columnist and economist Stephen Moore, in his Unleash Prosperity column, found contradiction in some of the claims as he wrote Tuesday. He pointed out what the wind industry wants over the coming ten years is 20 times what the oil and gas industry will get.
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