Sen. Murkowski, feeling 'cheated' by Trump actions against wind and solar, says she'll go to bat for Alaska projects [View all]
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.
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