Biden’s climate triumph is the new Obamacare for Republicans

In just 10 months, the Republican House voted more than two dozen times to repeal varying parts of the Inflation Reduction Act, which makes the IRA the Affordable Care Act of the 2020s. By the time former Sen. John McCain took one of his final stands on the Senate floor, acting as the deciding vote to kill the last Obamacare repeal effort, Republicans had taken well over 50 votes to kill some or all of President Barack Obama’s crowning achievement.

But Republicans are on track to surpass that record on behalf of the fossil fuel industry and wealthy tax cheats in trying to undo President Joe Biden’s climate achievement. The very first vote the GOP House took this year (once they finally settled on what proved to be a temporary speaker) was to repeal the IRA’s new funding for the IRS, money that was targeted in large part at hiring more agents to go after rich tax evaders.