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BREAKING: HOUSE passes BIG BEAUTIFUL Bill ! ...and ALL the Democrats could do was OBSTRUCT !
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, last month with three other Republicans warning that “termination” of certain clean energy tax credits enacted in 2022 “would create uncertainty, jeopardizing capital allocation, long-term project planning, and job creation in the energy sector and across our broader economy.”The House committee tasked with writing the tax provisions of the package is seeking to repeal significant subsidies for electric vehicles and aims to phase out other clean energy tax incentives that were passed in the Inflation Reduction Act, which was signed into law by then-President Joe Biden.On Wednesday, Murkowski told NBC News she, John Curtis, R-Utah, Thom Tillis, R-NC, and Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, “made clear that we needed to take a cautious approach to the energy tax credits and make sure that we don’t lose out on some of the good investments that we built.”Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., has also been warning against Medicaid cuts as the House bill seeks to impose work requirements and provider funding limits that have been panned by critics.RecommendedSupreme CourtSupreme Court grants Trump request to fire independent agency members
=17.55pxszsz“I will not support Medicaid benefit cuts,” Hawley told NBC News on Tuesday, adding that he has “concerns with pieces” of the House bill because of what it would mean to rural hospitals in his state.He later wrote on X: “I don’t want to see rural hospitals close their doors because funding got cut. I also don’t like the idea of a hidden tax on the working poor. That’s why I’m a NO on this House bill in its current form.”Hawley’s concerns are shared by Murkowski as well as Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who voted against the budget framework last month, citing concerns about Medicaid cuts harming her state.Another issue Senate Republicans want to revise are provisions that House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said would renew “the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority and provide resources to modernize federal information-technology systems,” and save $88 billion.“I’ve had a chance to actually look at the language on the spectrum issue. It clearly has to be corrected,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.
=17.55pxszsz“I will not support Medicaid benefit cuts,” Hawley told NBC News on Tuesday, adding that he has “concerns with pieces” of the House bill because of what it would mean to rural hospitals in his state.He later wrote on X: “I don’t want to see rural hospitals close their doors because funding got cut. I also don’t like the idea of a hidden tax on the working poor. That’s why I’m a NO on this House bill in its current form.”Hawley’s concerns are shared by Murkowski as well as Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who voted against the budget framework last month, citing concerns about Medicaid cuts harming her state.Another issue Senate Republicans want to revise are provisions that House Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie, R-Ky., said would renew “the Federal Communications Commission’s spectrum auction authority and provide resources to modernize federal information-technology systems,” and save $88 billion.“I’ve had a chance to actually look at the language on the spectrum issue. It clearly has to be corrected,” said Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D.