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Another win for the Republicans.

'GOP lawmaker targets more Biden green largesse for termination'

<https://www.wnd.com/2025/07/gop-lawmaker-targets-more-biden-green-largesse-termination/>


'Takes aim at billions handed out by Democrats' Inflation Reduction Act,
which dumped cash on climate change ideology but didn't really reduce
inflation

By
Daily Caller News Foundation

July 25, 2025

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Republican Texas Rep. Craig Goldman introduced legislation Friday that
would further dismantle the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), former President Joe Biden's signature climate law.

The Homeowner Energy Freedom Act would save taxpayers $5.7 billion,
according to Goldman's office, by repealing three IRA provisions that
limit consumer choice and rescinding unobligated funding for two other
sections of the IRA. Though the One Big Beautiful Bill Act scaled back
several IRA provisions, President Donald Trump and GOP lawmakers,
including Goldman, are working to roll back even more green energy
subsidies in the bill.

"Americans should have the freedom to choose how to cook their food and
heat their homes. That's why I am introducing the Homeowner Energy
Freedom Act to repeal the Biden administration's extreme green energy
mandates that would effectively ban gas stoves and appliances," Goldman
said. "The Homeowner Energy Freedom Act restores homeowners' choices in
home appliances, removes costly regulations, and eliminates wasteful
federal government spending."

The bill would specifically repeal IRA sections 50122, 50123 and 50131.
These provisions currently authorize the Department of Energy (DOE) to
spend $4.5 billion on an electric home rebate program, $200 million for training contractors to complete "home energy efficiency and
electrification improvements," as well as $1 billion for states to
update buildings so they emit less carbon. The IRA programs Goldman is targeting were a key part of Biden's broad push to electrify buildings
and appliances across the country using taxpayer dollars.

Goldman's bill was introduced by Montana Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy on
the Senate side in January.

Democrats initially touted the IRA — the largest piece of climate
legislation in U.S. history — as a tool to reduce inflation, though
Biden later admitted it was primarily a vehicle to advance his climate
agenda. The IRA ran up a massive price tag for taxpayers, with Goldman
Sachs projecting that the costs could reach $1 trillion over 10 years. A separate March 11 Cato Institute forecast estimated that IRA tax credits
could cost as much as $4.7 trillion by 2050.

Trump ran against the Democrats' climate agenda, and his administration
has moved to roll back many climate-related initiatives, regulations and Biden-era appliance rules'

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