Republicans can’t be afraid to fight the green agenda
By
Steve Milloy
June 26, 2025 6:00 am
Should Republican politicians fear voter vengeance in 2026 if they support rolling back the Green New Scam?
Bloomberg News reported in “Republican Who Flip-Flopped on Energy Credits Risks Voters’ Ire” that Democrats plan to target Rep. Jen Kiggans (R-VA) in 2026 because she “flip-flopped” on green energy subsidies and “cast the deciding vote” for the House version of the “big, beautiful bill.”
Kiggans reportedly “cast herself as the leading Republican champion of renewables” yet voted to cut green subsidies by about 50%. “Jen Kiggans’ brazen flip-flop on supporting clean energy tax credits is exactly what voters hate about D.C. politicians: She says one thing back home, but turns around and votes another way in Washington,” a Democrat operative told Bloomberg.
Kiggans is in her second term in the House. She won her seat in 2022 by 2.4 points. She was reelected in 2024 by 3.8 points. But Virginia is a purple state, and President Donald Trump won Kiggans’s district by a mere 1,000 votes (0.2%). So, 2026 is likely to be a close election regardless of her vote on the “big, beautiful bill.” But that’s exactly the point.
Since the 1990s, no one has been able to identify a single Republican at the federal level who lost an election specifically because he or she ignored or opposed the green agenda. And there is a good reason for this. Green issues, especially climate, are just not voter priorities. Election outcomes typically depend on how voters feel about a range of issues.
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