Two prominent Republican senators have just thrown a wrench into the Biden-era Treasury Department’s green energy agenda—by blocking key Trump-appointed nominees over concerns about renewable energy tax policies.
In a bold move, Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) formally placed a hold on three of President Trump’s nominees for the Treasury Department. His stand is rooted in opposition to the agency’s ongoing efforts to phase out tax credits for wind and solar energy—a move he believes oversteps legal bounds and strays from original congressional intent.
“Mr. President, today, I placed a hold on three Department of the Treasury nominees. The nominees are Brian Morrissey, Jr., of Virginia, to be General Counsel for the Department of the Treasury; Francis Brooke, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury; and Jonathan McKernan, of Tennessee, to be an Under Secretary of the Treasury,” Grassley stated directly into the Congressional Record.
