Why, oh why, is it SO hard for Republicans to kill what President Trump calls the “Green New Scam?”

The Senate bill puts these taxpayer subsidies on a de facto lifetime taxpayer life-support system.

Our friends at the Institute for Energy Research have analyzed the fine print of the Senate’s Big Beautiful Tax Bill. The conclusion from their exam is alarming. They project that many wind and solar projects could be eligible “for federal subsidies through 2040.”

WHAT???? Fifteen more years of what President Trump calls the “Green New Scam?” It gets worse.

IER reminds us that the wind production tax credit (PTC) “was originally set to expire in 1999.