Gabe Evans Voted For Devastating Cuts To Colorado’s Clean Energy Sector…

July 2025: Evans Voted For The Final Passage Of One Big Beautiful Bill, Which Repealed Clean Energy Tax Credits

May 2025 And July 2025: Evans Voted Twice For The Big Beautiful Bill

May 2025: Evans Voted For H.R. 1, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In May 2025, Evans voted for: “Passage of the bill that would provide for approximately $3.8 trillion in net tax cuts and $321 billion in military, border enforcement and judiciary spending, offset by $1.5 trillion in spending reductions, as instructed in the fiscal 2025 budget resolution (H Con Res 14). It would raise the statutory debt limit by $4 trillion and provide for increased spending on defense and border security, spending cuts on social safety net programs, such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. It also includes a mix of tax breaks for businesses and individuals; tax increases on universities and foundations; and a phase-down of clean energy tax credits. It would reduce spending on Medicaid by $625 billion over a 10-year period and modify eligibility and cost provisions for enrollees and health providers and impose work, volunteer and education requirements on adults ages 19 to 64 who are covered by the program. It would appropriate “such sums as necessary” for reducing cost-sharing payments for low-income individuals who’ve purchased “silver” plans on the 2010 health care law’s exchanges. But payments to plans that cover abortions would be mostly barred. It would extend and make permanent individual tax brackets and rates included in the 2017 tax overhaul law (PL 115-97) and provide for the adjustment of the lower bounds of each tier based on inflation. It would reduce federal spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program by requiring states to shoulder more of the cost, expand work requirements for SNAP, extend programs authorized under the 2018 farm bill, and prohibit the U.S. Department of Agriculture from increasing the cost of the Thrifty Food Program. As amended, it would cap state and local tax deductions at $40,000 for households with incomes below $500,000 and prohibit Medicaid funding for gender transition therapies or procedures for minors and adults, among other provisions.” The bill passed by a vote of 215-214. [H.R. 1, Vote #145, 5/22/25; CQ, 5/22/25]

July 2025: Evans Voted For Final Passage Of The Senate Version Of The One Big Beautiful Bill Act

July 2025: Evans Voted For H.R. 1, The One Big Beautiful Bill Act. In July 2025, Evans voted for: “Motion to concur in the Senate amendment to the bill that would permanently extend nearly $4 trillion in expiring individual and business tax cuts, create several new tax breaks and fund border and immigration enforcement and air traffic control upgrades. It would cut Medicaid and other safety net programs to partly offset the cost. Among other provisions, it would raise the statutory debt ceiling by $5 trillion and appropriate more than $448 billion in mandatory funding for Trump administration priorities and other needs, including $153 billion for defense, $89 billion for immigration enforcement, and $89.5 billion for border control and security. It also would increase the state and local tax deduction cap to $40,000 annually for five years for households making up to $500,000 a year until 2030, when it would permanently revert to $10,000.” The motion was agreed to by a vote of 218-214. [HR 1, Vote #190, 7/3/25; CQ, 7/3/25]

The One Big Beautiful Bill Accelerated Repeal Schedules For Most Renewable Energy Tax Credits And Eliminated Electric Vehicle And Residential Energy Incentives. “On July 4, 2025, President Trump signed into law the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1 119th Congress) (OBBBA), which significantly changes the clean energy tax credit landscape established by the Biden administration pursuant to the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (IRA). The OBBBA introduces accelerated repeal schedules for most renewable energy tax credits, compresses deadlines for certain projects to qualify for such credits, enhances domestic content requirements, eliminates several electric vehicle and residential energy incentives, and implements new foreign entity of concern (FEOC) restrictions barring certain foreign entities from accessing credits. These changes reflect a fundamental shift in federal clean energy policy that is certain to affect investors, developers, manufacturers, and other actors in the renewables sector.” [Arnold & Porter, 7/22/25]

The Repeal Of Clean Energy Tax Credits Was Predicted To Increase Energy Costs While Threatening Business Investments In Colorado’s 8th Congressional District

Future Clean Energy Projects Were Predicted To Cost About 50% More Than Those That Received Tax Credits

The Atlantic: Future Clean Energy Projects Would Cost About 50% More Than Those That Received Tax Credits. “The Senate version of Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill repeals the clean-energy tax credits in the IRA for all wind and solar projects that don’t begin construction within a year of the bill’s passage or become fully operational by 2028. (And even if a project begins construction in the first half of 2026, it will need to meet extremely onerous domestic-sourcing requirements that many experts believe will be nearly impossible to satisfy.) As a result, future clean-energy projects, including many that have been announced but not yet built, will cost about 50 percent more than those that received the credits, according to an analysis by Jesse Jenkins, who leads the Princeton ZERO Lab. The inevitable result is that far fewer will come into existence. ‘It’s hard to think of a bigger self-own,’ Jenkins told me. ‘We’re effectively raising taxes on the country’s main sources of new power at a time when electricity prices are already rising.’” [The Atlantic, 7/3/25]

Energy And Utility Costs Were Expected To Increase Because Of The Repeal Of Clean Energy Tax Credits, With Household Energy Costs In Colorado Projected To Increase 7% By 2035

Due To Changes Made In The Big Beautiful Bill, Household Energy Costs Were Expected To Rise By $170, On Average, By 2035. “Electricity prices are expected to surge higher throughout the next decade due to energy policy changes in President Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ bill, according to a new analysis from Energy Innovation, a non-partisan energy and climate think tank. Signed July 4, the bill mandates expanded oil and gas leasing, caps clean energy subsidies and rolls back tax credits that helped to make wind, solar and other clean power cheaper for manufacturers and more affordable for consumers, says Robbie Orvis, senior director for modeling and analysis at Energy Innovation. When the clean energy tax credits phase out at the end of 2025, that will bump up electricity costs for ordinary Americans, Orvis says. That’s largely because higher costs for clean energy development will slow the pace of new supply, just as U.S. energy demand hits record highs, he says, resulting in higher electricity bills and increased reliance on natural gas, which will also become more expensive with rising demand. […] Overall, household energy costs will rise by $170, on average, by 2035, researchers found. And that estimate may be conservative. A report from Princeton University’s Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit pegs the average increase at $280 a year by 2035.” [CNBC, 7/14/25]

• CNBC: “Electricity Prices Are Expected To Surge Higher Throughout The Next Decade Due To Energy Policy Changes In President Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill.’” “Electricity prices are expected to surge higher throughout the next decade due to energy policy changes in President Donald Trump’s ‘big beautiful’ bill, according to a new analysis from Energy Innovation, a non-partisan energy and climate think tank. Signed July 4, the bill mandates expanded oil and gas leasing, caps clean energy subsidies and rolls back tax credits that helped to make wind, solar and other clean power cheaper for manufacturers and more affordable for consumers, says Robbie Orvis, senior director for modeling and analysis at Energy Innovation.” [CNBC, 7/14/25]

Household Energy Costs In Colorado Were Projected To Increase 7% By 2035 As A Result Of The One Big Beautiful Bill. “Trump’s bill could lead to higher energy costs across the US Trump's tax and spending bill could add hundreds of dollars onto yearly household energy costs for Americans across the country, according to a new analysis from think tank Energy Innovation. People in states including Kentucky, Missouri, South Carolina and Oklahoma could see up to 14% higher energy costs by 2035 now the bill has passed, compared with a scenario where the bill had not passed.” [CNN, 7/4/25]

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[CNN, 7/4/25]

• An Analysis From Energy Innovation Projected The Repeal Of Clean Energy Tax Credits Under The OBBB Would Increase Annual Electricity And Transportation Costs In Every State In The Continental United States. “Household energy bills will be higher over the next decade now that Republicans have passed their tax and spending bill, according to a new analysis. President Donald Trump and Republicans are phasing out tax credits that lower the cost to build wind and solar, which are now largely cheaper than fossil fuels like natural gas and coal. More wind and solar on the electric grid helps keep utility bills lower, and Biden-era tax credits would have ramped up those projects When combined with the electric vehicle consumer tax credit being cut (you can still get the EV tax credit through September 30, 2025) annual electricity and transportation costs in every state in the continental United States will be higher than they would have if the tax credits stayed intact, analysis from think tank Energy Innovation found. Energy Innovation did not model data for Hawaii and Alaska.” [CNN, 7/4/25]