This piece originally appeared in the Washington Post.
President Donald Trump recently set an ambitious goal: Quadruple the nation’s stagnant nuclear capacity. “The long-awaited American nuclear renaissance must launch during President Trump’s administration,” Secretary of Energy Chris Wright wrote in February.
We couldn’t agree more with the president’s dream of a nuclear renaissance. Unfortunately, the House Republican reconciliation package is about to crush it.
Earlier this week, two House committees released their sections of the bill, which includes cuts to key energy loan and tax credit programs. If enacted, the provisions would constitute the biggest setback to U.S. energy security in a generation — and nuclear energy would be hardest hit.
