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Representative Jodey Arrington (R-TX) sponsored H.Con.Res. 14, the Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Resolution. Passage of a budget resolution sets in motion the legislative procedure for a budget reconciliation bill, which can only address government revenue and spending and only needs 50 votes to pass the Senate. This budget resolution would increase costs for working families, among other impacts, through higher energy bills by rescinding hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits that have already been promised to consumers and businesses, as well as funding for clean energy and energy efficiency programs. It would compromise the health of our communities by rolling back and cutting funding for critical environmental protections and pollution reduction programs. It would enable cuts to programs meant to provide assistance to those who need it most, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) and disaster unemployment assistance, as well as critical lifelines for millions of people like Medicaid, SNAP, and WIC. It proposes selling off our pristine public lands and waters to the oil and gas industry for drilling, including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, despite the fact that the most recent lease sale raised $0. It would further eliminate the penalty for fossil fuel companies that fail to reduce their dangerous methane pollution while cutting funds to monitor, enforce, protect and improve air and water quality, and it would direct hundreds of billions of dollars to turbocharge mass deportations, militarize the border, fund immigration raids in schools and other community spaces, and tear families apart. This resolution’s cuts to clean energy incentives, assistance programs, and environmental safeguards would increase families’ costs to pay for tax breaks for billionaires and polluting corporations. On April 5, the Senate approved H.Con.Res.14 as amended by a vote of 51-48 (Senate roll call vote 191). NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The House agreed to the Senate amendment to the budget resolution on April 10, effectively enacting it.
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