In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a group of Republican senators over the weekend added provisions to the U.S. federal budget bill that, as currently written, would end clean energy tax credits at the personal level and at utility scale and increase taxes on foreign-made parts for solar power equipment.

The "Big Beautiful Bill" passed a key procedural hurdle in the Senate over the weekend, opening the legislation for final debate in the chamber. Given the slim Republican majority there, everyone in the party has been viewed as a critical vote,

Analysis shows that by 2030, the bill could result in the loss of 840,000 potential clean tech jobs and raise annual energy costs by billions of dollars.