President Trump ran for office on the promise that he would “terminate” the subsidies for wind and solar in the so-called Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) because these sources of electricity are unreliable, expensive, and only built because of taxpayer subsidies. The House’s reconciliation bill delivers. Hopefully, the Senate follows suit because the time for “phasing out” wind and solar subsidies is over. The "Big Beautiful Bill" must end them now.

Phasing out the subsidies may have been an appropriate means of terminating them ten years ago when wind and solar were a relatively small portion of the nation’s electricity supply, but grid operators are warning that an overreliance on these resources is now threatening grid reliability. 

The best thing Congress can do for both the grid and taxpayers is to end IRA subsidies now because it is not a budgeting problem, it’s a grid reliability problem.