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By ending tax credits for wind and solar power, Senate Republicans may have jeopardized billions in investments in their own districts.

When Congress enacted President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s signature climate law in 2022, Democrats made a bet. They knew the law would spur billions of dollars of investments in solar arrays, battery factories and other clean energy projects, primarily in Republican-led districts. That was designed to give the law staying power.

But that wager failed spectacularly on Tuesday as Senate Republicans voted to dismantle many of the law’s lucrative tax credits for solar panels, wind turbines, electric cars and other green technologies as part of President Trump’s giant domestic policy bill.

Nearly all Republicans voted for the bill even as industry groups, labor unions and even some members of their own party warned that axing those clean energy credits could erase thousands of jobs in red states and raise electricity prices nationwide.

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