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The Senate considered Chair Jodey Arrington’s (R-TX) H.R. 1, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), also known as the Big Ugly Bill, which is raising household energy costs for working families, killing hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, and selling off our public lands to corporate polluters, all to provide tax breaks to billionaires and polluters. The bill eliminates historic clean energy tax credits enacted in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) that lower energy costs for working families, reduce dependence on fossil fuels, and power the American manufacturing resurgence. It eliminates the penalty for fossil fuel companies that fail to reduce their dangerous methane pollution and car companies that fail to produce cleaner, more efficient, money-saving cars while cutting funds to monitor, enforce, protect, and improve air and water quality. It allows polluters to pay for permitting shortcuts and limits harmed communities from having a say in the process. In addition to cutting programs that lower costs, the bill specifically reduces assistance to those who need it most, including critical lifelines for millions of people like Medicaid and SNAP. It also directs billions of dollars to turbocharge mass deportations, militarize the border, fund immigration raids in schools and other community spaces, and tear families apart. On July 1, the Senate approved H.R. 1 by a vote of 51-50 (Senate roll call vote 372), with Vice President J.D. Vance’s tie-breaking vote. NO IS THE PRO-ENVIRONMENT VOTE. The House approved H.R. 1, as amended by the Senate, on July 3, and the president signed it into law on July 4.
H.R. 1, the Big Ugly Bill, wreaks massive damage on our communities, clean energy future, and environment, and it eliminates the transformational investment in climate solutions and environmental justice in the IRA, which was double scored in 2022. As a result, LCV has made the decision to double score this vote, a rarely used practice employed only for particularly consequential bills.
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