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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSen. Murkowski, feeling 'cheated' by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects
Sen. Lisa Murkowski said she feels cheated after she won a concession in the recently passed tax and spending law to protect wind and solar projects, only to see the president and his administration issue recent orders that she said seem designed to quickly quash such projects.
I feel cheated, she said in an interview Friday. I feel like we made a deal and then hours later, a deal was made to somebody else.
Murkowski said there were plenty of wins for Alaska in the megabill signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4. Those include a new royalty sharing mechanism that in eight years is meant to start giving Alaska lots of revenue from oil production on federal lands.
While the megabill took steps to cut support for solar and wind projects, Murkowski managed to negotiate a measure to protect a 12-month window for the projects to receive tax credits, despite efforts by some Republicans to immediately eliminate them.
It was several years less than the tax-credit window allowed under the Inflation Reduction Act, approved by Democrats under former President Joe Biden in 2022.
I feel cheated, she said in an interview Friday. I feel like we made a deal and then hours later, a deal was made to somebody else.
Murkowski said there were plenty of wins for Alaska in the megabill signed into law by President Donald Trump on July 4. Those include a new royalty sharing mechanism that in eight years is meant to start giving Alaska lots of revenue from oil production on federal lands.
While the megabill took steps to cut support for solar and wind projects, Murkowski managed to negotiate a measure to protect a 12-month window for the projects to receive tax credits, despite efforts by some Republicans to immediately eliminate them.
It was several years less than the tax-credit window allowed under the Inflation Reduction Act, approved by Democrats under former President Joe Biden in 2022.
https://www.adn.com/business-economy/energy/2025/07/18/sen-murkowski-feeling-cheated-by-trump-actions-against-wind-and-solar-says-shell-go-to-bat-for-alaska-projects/
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Sen. Murkowski, feeling 'cheated' by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects (Original Post)
In It to Win It
Sunday
OP
senseandsensibility
(22,917 posts)1. She demands to be treated like a victim
when she is anything but.
sakabatou
(45,094 posts)2. *sits back as a leopard eats Murkowski's face*

mercuryblues
(15,740 posts)3. You mean the well-known liars
lied to you?
Whoda thunk it?
Wednesdays
(20,585 posts)4. Go away, Lisa.
Just go away. You teased us with a trial balloon about caucusing with the Democrats, but you showed your true colors when voting for TSF's Big, Ugly Bill.
UpInArms
(53,136 posts)5. Fek you, lisa
Go sit in the corner with Josh Hawley
There are no take backsies
You voted for this shit
sarisataka
(21,804 posts)6. When taking a bribe
Always take it in cash, not a check
enough
(13,573 posts)7. Where is that tiny violin thing?
Emile
(36,004 posts)8. She sold her soul to the devil.
Irish_Dem
(72,487 posts)9. She cannot take responsibility, she has to blame others.
She is no better than Trump.
Ocelot II
(126,066 posts)10. I didn't think there were leopards in Alaska.
Scrivener7
(56,488 posts)11. What a clown.
oasis
(52,505 posts)12. Serial liar, Trump lied. Whoda thunkit?
Murks playing her constituents just as she was played.
Johonny
(24,190 posts)13. She already struck out, now hit the showers
Because it's game over for this loser of a senator.
dem4decades
(12,983 posts)14. Republicans sure don't mind selling out their constituents do they?