As Mike Lawler shamelessly touts his vote for the Big, Ugly Bill – slashing green energy tax credits that are bringing millions of dollars to NY-17 and tens of thousands of jobs to the state – New Yorkers are ripping him, his lies, and his spineless leadership to shreds.
One environmental nonprofit leader said that Lawler not only “abandoned New York’s interests” to shore up his “conservative credibility,” but is “working openly to sabotage our energy future.”
Reminder: Lawler insisted for months that he would protect these clean energy tax credits, even sending a letter to the Senate asking them to “mitigate” the negative impacts of his own vote.
Read her brutal words for yourself…
Albany Times Union: These congressmen sold out New York on clean energy
- New York Republican Reps. Mike Lawler, Andrew Garbarino and Nick LaLota voted for President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” knowing full well it would kill clean energy tax credits.
- Then, in a letter to Senate leaders, they begged the Senate to back off and save clean energy after all. That didn’t happen. The three New York reps chose politics over policy, and voted again to support the final bill.
- And we will be paying the price for a generation.
- Lawmakers like Lawler love to talk about bringing back manufacturing jobs, but the Inflation Reduction Act actually did it. Our GOP House members are complicit in destroying, in the name of politics, one of the most forward-looking economic achievements in a generation — and setting back global climate progress.
- But our representatives in Congress have dismantled all that in the name of politics, sunsetting the Inflation Reduction Act credits and killing incentive programs across the board. In the final bill, clean-energy incentives are effectively over for solar, wind, and battery storage projects that don’t break ground in 2025.
- GOP culture war politics and fossil fuel lobbyists can’t stop the energy transition. But they can make it slower, more painful and more expensive, and they can expose us to much more acute economic shocks than we would have seen if we’d stayed the course.
- Reps. Lawler, Garbarino and LaLota may have abandoned New York’s interests to shore up their conservative credibility, but the rest of us are still fighting for good policy. Now that the Trump administration and the Republican majority in Congress are working openly to sabotage our energy future, the fight will be harder. But they won’t have the final word.
- […] We can tell Congress, too, using our voices and our votes, that we’re determined to advance into a clean-energy future.
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