Nearly 40 GOP lawmakers urge Ways and Means to repeal Biden's green agenda in upcoming tax bill

A group of nearly 40 House Republicans on Thursday urged Ways and Committee Chairman Jason Smith to include a repeal of former President Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in an upcoming tax bill.

The letter comes as House Republicans work to pass a massive funding bill that would support President Donald Trump's America First agenda. The bill focuses on funding for taxes, border security, national defense and energy, but also raises the debt limit.

The letter, first reported by Fox News, pushes Smith to repeal the controversial IRA, stating that keeping some of the credits from the liberal bill would be hypocritical because of the party's platform in the 2024 election.

"We are deeply concerned that President Trump’s commitment to restoring American energy dominance and ending what he calls the ‘green new scam’ is being undermined by parochial interests and short-sighted political calculations," the lawmakers wrote.

"The IRA contains eight major energy subsidies, each of which burdens taxpayers, inflates energy costs, and threatens the reliability of our power grid," the letter continued. "Each of these subsidies props up unreliable energy sources while displacing dependable, proven energy like coal and natural gas. Republicans ran—and won—on a promise to completely dismantle the IRA and end the left’s green welfare agenda."

The letter comes after 21 Republican lawmakers urged fellow members in March to keep the green energy tax credit, but the 38 lawmakers in Thursday's letter warned that keeping even one of the subsidies could mean keeping the whole agenda.

"How do we retain some of these credits and not operate in hypocrisy?" The lawmakers asked. "The longstanding Republican position has been to allow the market to determine energy production. If every faction continues to defend their favored subsidies, we risk preserving the entire IRA because no clearly defined principle will dictate what is kept and what is culled."

The lawmakers also argued that the current IRA subsidies would cost American taxpayers roughly $1 trillion over the next decade, which comes after House GOP leadership agreed to help reduce federal spending by $1.5 trillion to offset new costs.

Smith and his committee have not responded to the letter by press time.

Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.