Pennsylvania Lawmaker Reaps Benefit of Biden Law He Voted Down
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) voted against President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, but that did not stop him from reaping the benefits of it. Kelly, an outspoken critic of Biden, received a grant for the installation…
Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.) voted against President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act, but that did not stop him from reaping the benefits of it.
Kelly, an outspoken critic of Biden, received a grant for the installation of solar panels at one of his car dealership locations, per the HuffPost.
The Uniontown dealership owned by Mike Kelly Automotive Group received about $315,000 in grant money from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The money will be used to install a 261.9-kilowatt solar panel array, per the Erie Times News, who reported on the grant Monday.
According to the USDA, the grant could save the firm $23,700 per year in energy costs.
The grant was distributed through the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP), which started in 2018. However, the Inflation Reduction Act added $1 billion into the program, per the HuffPost.
The federal government then said that it would distribute grants from that money to rural businesses in 2023 and 2024.
Following the bill’s passage, Kelly doubted whether it could make a significant difference.
The lawmaker called it the “so-called Inflation Reduction Act,” adding it was “loaded with bad policy and wasteful spending that will ultimately worsen inflation, expand government, and hurt the middle-class.”
“The bill provides $375 billion in so-called ‘climate change’ legislation, which include $7,500 tax credits for wealthy Americans to purchase electric vehicles (EV),” he said.