Climate Power Release on Vance Visit to Wisconsin
JD Vance Tries to Sell Wisconsinites on Republican Rate Hike That’s Raising Energy Costs & Killing Jobs
La Crosse, WI— JD Vance is traveling to La Crosse tomorrow to sell the Republican tax bill, a law that is driving up energy costs and threatening local manufacturing jobs. Last month, President Trump signed the Republican Rate Hike into law—a bill that is not only wildly unpopular with voters but is driving up energy costs and hurting Wisconsin energy jobs.
Rising electricity prices have already outpaced inflation, and one in every six U.S. households is behind on their electric or gas bills. Thanks to this tax bill, Wisconsin households will see their electricity prices increase annually by $95 by 2030 and $300 by 2035.
As extreme heat strains the grid, the Republican tax bill will destroy homegrown clean energy supply, making the grid even less reliable and driving up costs for working families. Wisconsin has seen extreme heat, wildfire smoke, and flood events this summer, but rather than investing in disaster response and emergency preparedness, Trump and Republicans are cutting these programs, jeopardizing all of our safety.
JD Vance’s event in La Crosse will celebrate a law that threatens Wisconsin’s energy future, particularly in the 3rd congressional district, which leads the state in new clean energy jobs. The Republican tax bill is killing clean energy investments that created 1,850 jobs in the district. Rep. Van Orden voted in favor of the bill.
No wonder major unions denounced the bill as a job killer of historic proportions…
- AFL-CIO: “Every senator who voted for this budget bill chose to make working families poorer, sicker and less safe. Senators had a chance to correct the damage of the House version of the budget, but they’ve doubled down to make this job-killer even worse.”
- NABTU: “The revised Senate draft released late last night is a massive insult to the working men and women of North America’s Building Trades Unions and all construction workers. This is not what they voted for. If enacted, this stands to be the biggest job-killing bill in the history of this country.”
- LIUNA: “Today, the U.S. Senate voted to kill American jobs in order to line the pockets of the megawealthy. This bill eradicates thousands of good-paying LIUNA jobs — jobs that were promised, planned, and already underway.”
- IBEW: “Make no mistake, this bill will cost hundreds of thousands of good-paying construction jobs, billions of work hours, and hundreds of billions in lost wages and economic benefits to America’s middle class. IBEW members and every average American will pay the price as congressional Republicans abandon critical investments in American infrastructure and the energy independence they have been tripping over themselves to take credit for the last few years. That so many of these investments are in the rural areas and small towns left behind for generations is even more troubling.”
NOTE: This press release was submitted to Urban Milwaukee and was not written by an Urban Milwaukee writer. While it is believed to be reliable, Urban Milwaukee does not guarantee its accuracy or completeness.
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