MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • June 22, 2025
Former President Joe Biden’s so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), pushed through Congress without serious conservative input, was sold as a clean energy plan. In reality, it was a reckless green giveaway that benefited China, rewarded wealthy elites, inflated our national debt and punished working Americans. We call it Biden’s Green New Scam. The centerpiece of the law — $7,500 subsidies for electric vehicles — might sound good to the lobbyists and activists who helped write it. But for the rest of us, it’s a joke. The IRA included a slush fund for radical left-wing nongovernmental organizations that are at odds with Maine values. ~ Sen. Trey Stewart, R-Presque Isle, and Sarah E. Hunt, Joseph Rainey Center for Public Policy [a Washington, D.C. think tank with deep ties to the climate change denying, pay-to-play American Legislative Exchange Council]