Twenty-six House Republicans are urging House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., to preserve tax credits for nuclear energy development in the reconciliation bill.
In a letter sent to Smith on Thursday, the Republicans, led by Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., are asking that the credits — codified by Democrats in their 2022 Inflation Reduction Act — be spared as House leaders continue to look for $1.5 trillion in offsets in federal funding cuts to pay for President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda.
The letter pits the group against 38 of their Republican colleagues, many of them from the conservative House Freedom Caucus, who also sent a letter to Smith on Thursday, urging that every facet of the IRA, what they call the “green new scam” of Democrats, be scrapped, Politico reported.
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