President Trump entered office with a clear mandate to reduce wasteful spending, and eliminating this kind of horse squeeze is a good place to start; unfortunately, what the president can do is limited. The IRA was passed by Congress, money has been appropriated, and Congress has to act to permanently end the waste. 

That appears to be happening now. An exclusive piece Saturday at the Daily Caller website tells us that one member of the House, Josh Brecheen (R-OK), has a plan to get that ball rolling.

House Republicans could be leaving hundreds of billions of dollars in potential savings on the table as the GOP conference works to finish a budget deal to extend expiring tax cuts and cut spending, according to one conservative House lawmaker.

Republican Oklahoma Rep. Josh Brecheen, a member of the House Freedom Caucus who sits on the House Budget Committee, said House Republicans should incorporate a full repeal of former President Joe Biden’s misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) into a budget reconciliation package, in an interview with the Daily Caller News Foundation. A full repeal would fulfill President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to roll back the law and offset the cost of other spending priorities in the budget reconciliation package, according to Brecheen.

A full repeal, sadly, isn't what's currently on the table. While any start is a good start, a full repeal of this ill-advised law should be a Republican priority — they are supposed to be the fiscally responsible party, after all. So, why is a full repeal not being discussed? The government is still committed to spending billions on an issue that's not supported by the data.

However, Brecheen said that current discussions in the House as of Thursday were set at repealing roughly $200 billion of the IRA’s tax credits, which would preserve around $600 billion of the IRA’s green energy subsidies.

A complete repeal of the IRA’s green energy tax credits could allow for up to $796 billion in 10-year savings, according to a House Ways and Means Committee document outlining more than $5 trillion in potential spending cuts first obtained by POLITICO.

Using the budget reconciliation to push this is kind of a cynical workaround, attaching this repeal to a budget bill makes it more difficult for Democrats to oppose; however, that is a trick that the Democrats have also used, so now it's sauce for the goose. Of course, even $200 billion is better than nothing.

Biden signed the IRA into law in August 2022 after the green energy law passed Congress through the budget reconciliation process with no Republican votes. The law has been a frequent target of Republican lawmakers’ ire for distorting energy markets, doling out taxpayer dollars to left-wing activist groups and its skyrocketing costs.

“It was brought in by reconciliation by the Democrats,” Brecheen told the DCNF. “If we don’t do it now [with] a 50-vote threshold for the Senate, it will not get done.”

So, why is this important now, with all of the waste that Congress needs to address with legislation? Setting aside for the moment the obvious notion that the House (and Senate) GOP ought to be able to chew gum and pass gas at the same time, this is a particularly wasteful piece of legislation. Not only is it throwing billions in American taxpayer's money at a "crisis" of questionable scientific veracity, but it's a "crisis" that seems to present endless possibilities for graft. 

We've documented this graft several times in recent weeks alone.

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The green energy boondoggles subsidized here are a waste of time and money. Were they viable economically, they wouldn't need taxpayer money thrown at them; the fact that they are not viable economically means that this money is a waste — and until we can get the DOGE to dig into this, we have very little idea where a lot of this money is going. There's no transparency, there's no accountability, and it's all in the name of appeasing noisy climate scolds.

This kind of wastefulness is one of the primary reasons this latest election went the way it did. 

Here's the thing: We, the American taxpayers, need to see this waste stopped — but a lot of money has already been spent, and the taxpayers have a right to know where that money was spent and what we got in return for it. The climate scolds are vocal when it comes to their desire to end our modern, technological lifestyle, but go strangely quiet when asked where the money has gone, and that has to end. Granted, politics is the art of the possible — but if there was ever a time to shoot for the moon, this is it.