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BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE: Rep. Dingell sounds the horn: GOP budget bill steers Michigan down road to higher bills, drives US auto industry off a cliff

With Michigan’s economy and clean energy future on the line, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) joined workers and advocates to deliver a clear warning: Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” would be devastating for the state. It would take a sledgehammer to investments in clean energy and electric vehicles (EVs), resulting in shuttered projects, soaring utility bills, and tens of thousands of jobs on the chopping block. Rep. Dingell laid out the stakes of the catastrophic legislation following yesterday’s Senate passage and before she votes against its final passage this week in the House.

“This Republican bill will raise costs for working Americans while destroying jobs, reversing years of clean energy advancements, exacerbating the climate crisis, and making communities more vulnerable and less resilient—all of this to give a tax break to oil and gas billionaires,” said Rep. Dingell. “It will make our air and water dirtier and increase pollution, making Americans sicker while kicking people off their health insurance. This big, ugly bill is bad for our economy, it’s bad for families, it’s bad for workers, and it’s bad for Michigan. We can’t give in, and I will keep fighting against it in every way I can.”

Rep. Dingell was joined by labor, environmental, health, and community leaders—along with an East Lansing homeowner who used clean energy tax credits to install rooftop solar and cut her energy bills, highlighting the real-world impact of these investments. Together, they warned the bill will wipe out the majority of planned and proposed clean energy projects, raise utility bills for working families by as much as $110 next year and $400 within a decade. And, it would jeopardize more than 25,000 good-paying jobs statewide. Michigan’s manufacturing resurgence, especially in the auto industry, will be at risk.