"A POLITICO analysis finds that while the administration wiped out hundreds of billions in clean-energy tax breaks, spending has been harder to unwind."
"President Donald Trump has spent more than 18 months demolishing Joe Biden’s expansive green agenda.
Yet pieces of the former president’s would-be legacy stubbornly cling to life — along with roughly $600 billion in congressionally approved spending that has so far escaped Trump’s wrecking ball, a new POLITICO analysis has found.
The breakdown sheds fresh light on one of the most endlessly repeated pledges of Trump’s second term: his vow to unravel the nearly $1.6 trillion in spending and tax breaks that Biden had set in motion for a sprawling array of climate, clean energy and infrastructure programs.
Trump and GOP lawmakers made good on a huge chunk of that pledge by wiping out more than $540 billion in Biden-era tax incentives for electric cars, wind and solar power and other climate-friendly technology."
Jessie Blaeser, Benjamin Storrow and Kelsey Tamborrino report for Politico August 15, 2026.
