Posted by Brad Johnson on 06/28/2025 at 04:30AM
Following days of furious wrangling to fit their multi-trillion-dollar omnibus through budget reconciliation guiderails, the Senate Republican leadership released the full text of their version of the One Big Brutal Bill Act (H.R. 1) at midnight Saturday morning.
The bill’s guiding purpose is to kill the Green New Deal, the sweeping legislative vision of climate, social, and economic justice that President Joe Biden disavowed, even as his Inflation Reduction Act made compromised moves in that direction.
Below is the 13-page, 315-section table of contents for this gargantuan assault on the nation:
Posted by Brad Johnson on 06/27/2025 at 06:52PM
More than a hundred renewable-energy investors representing hundreds of billions in capital are making a last-minute bid to protect wind and solar tax incentives from the One Big Brutal Bill Act (H.R. 1), which is nearing Senate passage.
On Thursday, the group, calling their effort Secure US Energy, took out a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal calling for passage of a “final bill” that is less restrictive on solar-panel imports, preserves the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) Clean Electricity Production Credit and Clean Electricity Investment Credit, and that phases out the IRA’s Residential Solar Credit in 2027 instead of 2026.
In an attempt to reach Republican senators, the letter uses Trump-friendly framing, emphasizing “low-cost, reliable, and abundant energy,” “American energy production and manufacturing,” and the need to “deploy all sources of energy” to win the “AI race.”
The investors also cite the Energy Innovation report that finds OBBBA’s elimination of renewable-energy incentives would “raise American households’ annual energy bills by a combined $170 billion and reduce cumulative GDP by $1.1 trillion during the budget window, eliminate 790,000 jobs in 2035, and forgo 330 gigawatts of new electricity capacity by 2035.”
Full text of the letter:
Posted by Brad Johnson on 06/25/2025 at 03:25PM
National Science Foundation headquarters, built in 2017 in Alexandria, Va.
The Trump and Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) administrations are evicting the 1,833 employees of the National Science Foundation from its headquarters in Alexandria, Va. Scott Turner, Trump’s anti-housing Housing and Urban Development Secretary, is planning to take over the building.
Turner seeks to remodel the NSF headquarters, constructed in 2017 at 2415 Eisenhower Ave. in downtown Alexandria, into a private fiefdom in the mode of Trump Tower, with the 19th floor reserved for his personal use.
The union representing many NSF scientists, American Federation of Government Employees, Local 3403, announced the news on Tuesday, June 24.
ALXnow’s Ryan Belmore reports that the transition will occur over two years.