SARAH HUNT: Change The ‘Green New Scam’ To ‘Made In America’

As Congress prepares to extend Trump’s historic 2017 tax cuts, one question is how Republicans should approach energy tax credits. While our lawmakers must repeal Biden’s Green New Scam, the best way to create an America First energy plan is to retain energy tax credits for domestic manufacturing while ending Biden’s tax cuts for China.

New polling from the Rainey Center illustrates that voters support keeping domestic energy tax credits or limiting them to only US companies rather than eliminating them. Voters, including Republicans, oppose fully repealing domestic manufacturing credits.  This unity underscores the shared commitment to policies prioritizing American manufacturing and economic security.

President Trump has rightfully noted how other countries have taken advantage of America under past Presidents. Nowhere is this clearer than in clean energy, where China has dumped solar panels made with slave labor onto the American market in the hopes of destroying American manufacturing. In his first term, Trump fought back, tariffing Chinese solar to protect American manufacturing.

While incentives for domestic manufacturing are vital, the core of Biden’s “Green New Scam” was to tie necessary domestic manufacturing credits to a massive giveaway to anti-Israel radicals and allow Chinese companies to benefit from American taxpayer money. The solution is simple: end the giveaways and keep the domestic incentives–companies that build American factories should.