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American Energy Jobs At Risk

Floor Speech

Date: June 11, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. TONKO. Mr. Speaker, in 2017, the United States ranked 14th in the world for solar panel manufacturing. Today, we are third.

This happened in large part due to Congress providing long-term certainty for tax incentives to both produce and deploy American-made energy technologies.

Clearly, this strategy was working, but the Republicans' big, ugly tax scam is putting hundreds of thousands of American energy jobs at risk.

The uncertainty caused by this process has already resulted in over 62,000 jobs being lost or threatened. Repealing these tax credits won't stop people around the world from driving EVs or using solar, but it all but guarantees they will be using Chinese technologies.

If China is the big winner, American consumers are the big losers. If these credits are functionally repealed, the average American could see their utility bills rise by hundreds of dollars per year.

This is a lose-lose. It is bad for people's wallets. It is bad for building a strong, competitive economy. It sells out current and future generations to fund tax cuts for billionaires.

Mr. Speaker, I urge the Senate to reject this disgusting abomination.

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