| Mariannette Miller-Meeks warned about the consequences of repealing key energy tax credits: including how Iowans will face higher electricity costs and Iowa energy projects and jobs will be put in jeopardy. But Miller-Meeks voted to end the tax credits anyway.
Why? Perhaps it has something to do with the almost quarter of a million dollars in campaign contributions Miller-Meeks has taken from Big Oil.
New reporting from The Guardian highlights how Miller-Meeks “accepted $229,179 in oil and gas contributions.”
DCCC Spokesperson Katie Smith:
“More proof that Mariannette Miller-Meeks is bought and sold by the highest bidder. Miller-Meeks received nearly a quarter million dollars from Big Oil – then voted to kill tax credits, raise Iowans’ energy costs, and put Iowa jobs at risk because it’s what her billionaire corporate backers demanded.”
The Guardian: Republicans who backed Trump’s anti-environment bill have accepted over $105m from big oil
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to fossil fuel companies and their executives
- The Republican lawmakers who voted for Donald Trump’s anti-environment tax and spending bill have accepted more than $105m in political donations from the fossil fuel industry, a new analysis has found, raising concerns about their relationship with big oil.
- Signed into law last month, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act includes billions of dollars in giveaways to oil and gas companies and their executives, alongside provisions to scale back credits for clean vehicles, wind and solar which were enshrined by Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act (IRA).
- The mega-bill puts more than 110,000 jobs from the three sectors at risk in the 15 lawmakers’ districts, and is also expected to raise consumers’ energy bills by up to $200 annually by 2030, according to the climate policy thinktank Energy Innovation.
- Some on the list had previously critiqued the bill: Congresswoman Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa, who has accepted $229,179 in oil and gas contributions, pledged to support clean energy tax credits but backed the legislation anyway…
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