As Republicans move forward with a sweeping budget reconciliation bill aimed at funding President Donald Trump’s legislative priorities, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski is emerging as a vocal opponent, urging caution on efforts to dismantle former President Joe Biden’s signature climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act.
According to Politico, Murkowski is advocating for a more measured approach to rolling back the IRA’s “clean energy” subsidies, which are now a primary target in the GOP’s proposed budget cuts. The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in 2022 without any Republican support. Murkowski voted no to the bill back then and Vice President Kamala Harris broke the 50-50 tie to pass the spending bill, which is estimated to cost more than $1 trillion by 2032 and up to $4.7 trillion by 2050. While Republicans are seeking significant savings to fund their agenda, Murkowski is warning that an overly aggressive repeal could have long-term consequences, particularly for energy projects in Alaska.
“Taking a big hammer to these credits isn’t the way,” Murkowski reportedly said to Politico, pushing for what she described as a “cautious and conscientious approach.”
Her words come at the same time Moody’s has downgraded the United States’ long-term issuer and senior unsecured credit ratings from Aaa to Aa1, stripping the US of its last top-tier credit rating; Fitch had done so in 2023, and Standard & Poor had in 2011. Moody’s cited the rising US debt burden, now over $36 trillion, persistent fiscal deficits, and political polarization as key reasons for the downgrade. Federal deficits are expected to reach nearly 9% of GDP by 2035, driven by increased interest payments, rising entitlement spending, and low revenue generation.
Murkowski’s defense of the Inflation Reduction Act landed just as House Republicans are preparing to vote on a reconciliation package that would eliminate billions in subsidies for electric vehicles, household energy efficiency improvements, and clean hydrogen and nuclear energy development.
The “Big Beautiful Bill,” as it’s known, also proposes ending the transferability of energy tax credits, which allows companies to sell the tax credits, and includes provisions to limit foreign, particularly Chinese, entities from benefiting.
Murkowski is with a small group of Republicans working behind the scenes to salvage the IRA’s “clean energy” provisions. In April, she and three other GOP senators asked Senate Majority Leader John Thune to protect certain tax credits tied to “clean energy” technologies.
The senator has previously expressed concern about retaliation from the Trump administration and remains one of the more liberal members of her party. Earlier this week she said she would work to block the bill’s provision that cut funding to Planned Parenthood, as she remains a staunch supporter of abortion on demand.
OPM – Other People’s Murkowski
Hideous. Wretched. Heinous.
An aberration adversely affecting the entire populace of the country thanks to well over two decades proprietary digital vote manipulation, compounded with RCV.
That’s our girl! Anything to stick a finger in Trump’s eye, who cares about the merits?
I am ashamed of us as a state.
Well, I guess we know who Lisa’s real daddy is. And all along I thought it was me. Shows you how dumb I am.
I told Lisa that if she did a DNA test and matched Joe, we could change our last name to Biden and draw a larger inheritance. It’s easier to spell and will make the next write-in a virtual guarantee.
Attaboy, Vernie. There’s a reason why you came to the Murkowski doorstep.
She is sick.
WTF.
This is s why I NEVER voted for her.
If you ever did – look in the mirror – you are why this country is in the state it’s in.
REPENT.
Please do better.
Exactly what was princess supposed to recieve from all of this is the question.
Sockeye Lisa, at it again.
She always disingenuously counsels a “slow and cautious approach” when the interests of the deep state that she is entirely beholden to is challenged or threatened in any way.
Make Lisa Go Home Again.
Of course Lisa will defend eco-economics and Planned nonParenthood – look at who her donors are.
Princess Murkowski fully supports: HATE TRUMP means YOU HATE AMERICA
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I suppose there’s some value to the Republicans in keeping her around to ensure their Senate majority, but at some point there’s got to be a reckoning.
More accurately stated: “ Murkowski is with a small group of [RINOs] working behind the scenes to salvage the IRA’s “clean energy” provisions”. The “IRA” was a total fraud meant to reward democrat interests. It had nothing to do with inflation reduction. Any Econ 101 student knows you can’t reduce inflation by printing a huge outlay of dollars. It was so bad that all Republicans, even Lisa (!), voted against it. Now, Lisa and her RINO friends don’t want the feeding trough to be interrupted. She seems to embrace the 80/20 rule democrats are now living by: being against the issues that 80% of the people are for. Nick Begich has done more for Alaska in his first 100 days in office than Murkowski has done in her entire career. Clearly she is demonstrably ordinary. Alaska must do better.
The Daily Caller had her showcased in an article parallel to this one. It read: “Murkowski, who previously stated that she is “not attached to the Republican label,…” Remember when the Alaska Republican party censured her but then rescinded it? If she’s not attached to the Republican label, she certainly isn’t attached to anything remotely conservative. This begs the continuing question: Why doesn’t the Alaskan Republican party kick her out and make her publicly commit to who or what she’s attached to? The photo of her pinned to the wall by Diane Feinstein should answer any and all questions. She’s owned and has been owned by elements that have no interest in Alaska.
That requires something our GOP is incapable of. Action.
She is absolutely on the wrong side of the aisle. Just renounce your membership as a Republican and join the democrats. You are a disgrace and traitor to our state. Be gone already.
Man, whatever goods they have on you must be pretty good because if you’re not using your mouth and your vote for the betterment of Alaska’s economical future, for our natural resources, for our children then you are against us! And I believe that wholeheartedly! Get out now and make pasta with your son!
Wonder how Ms. Lisa benefits from the tax credits
Cheat Master speaks again. She’s like a curse that doesn’t go away
Happy, PM radio host? Your pet RCV project saved her porky backside.
Lisa Murkowski……excuse me please, I must now vomit…!…Lisa might have worms, someone send her some ivermectin!
A good friend of mine got a job collecting data in the Arctic to study “Climate Change”. Turns out, the earth changes climate on it’s own. No ammount of taxes or government programs will stop it.
Lisa is a heavy drinker of the Climate Change Kool-Aid.
Murkowski must be investigated by DOGE!!!