OPINION:
Senate squishes are watering down the president’s plan for America’s fiscal future. The Senate Finance Committee recently released its revision of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which passed the House last month, and it’s not an improvement.
Conservatives already underwhelmed by the net savings in the lower chamber’s reconciliation measure aren’t happy about what the “world’s greatest deliberative body” has done with the legislation. “Yeah, I will not vote for this,” Rep. Chip Roy, Texas Republican, wrote on X.
The Senate’s modifications will have to be approved in the House to become law, and the shameless extension of taxpayer subsidies for windmills and solar panels is causing turmoil. Instead of phasing out pork for the purveyors of intermittent energy sources over the next few years, liberal Republican senators insisted on extending Uncle Sam’s backing of many Green New Deal schemes through 2040.
That’s hard to swallow, but what