Sen. Joe Manchin (I-W.Va.) said in an interview that aired Sunday he believes some Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) portions “almost” have to stay during President-elect Trump’s next administration.
“There are things in there, tax credits for nuclear, biofuels. Do you think parts … you think parts of this will survive?” CBS News’s Margaret Brennan asked Manchin on “Face the Nation.”
“I think it almost has to,” Manchin replied.
The IRA, a large health care, tax and climate package featuring hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of tax credits for things like renewable energy, electric vehicles and domestic manufacturing, passed in 2022. Now that Republicans are set to have control of the White House, Senate and House next year, provisions of the IRA are at risk.
“And most of the investments — the majority of the investments are made in what you would consider red states. Republican states. That’s just because of what they do and how they operate, like West Virginia,” Manchin said in his CBS News interview of the IRA.
“And you didn’t hear much about that from the Democratic ticket,” Brennan said.
“They couldn’t talk about it,” Manchin responded.
Manchin said he “kept saying, ‘Can’t you just exact — tell what the bill did.’”
“They were saying, ‘Renewable, renewable, renewable,’” Manchin said.
Some Republicans have indicated that they don’t want to get rid of every incentive from the IRA for low-carbon energy, but some, such as electric vehicle subsidies, could be shot down.
“I think there are some of them that should go away: the tax credits for purchasing of electric vehicles, especially up to $500,000 in income, the tax credits for charging stations,” Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-Iowa) previously told The Hill.
The Hill has reached out to the White House, Trump transition team and Vice President Harris’s office for comment.
