{"id":379609,"date":"2025-05-23T18:07:29","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=379609"},"modified":"2025-05-23T18:07:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T16:07:31","slug":"climate-and-energy-in-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-the-climate-realism-show-158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=379609","title":{"rendered":"Climate and Energy in Trump&#8217;s Big Beautiful Bill &#8211; The Climate Realism Show\u00a0#158"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"723\" height=\"397\" data-attachment-id=\"379611\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?attachment_id=379611\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?fit=1402%2C770&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1402,770\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"0Screenshot 2025-05-23 180548\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?fit=723%2C397&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?resize=723%2C397&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-379611\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?resize=1024%2C562&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?resize=300%2C165&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?resize=768%2C422&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?resize=1200%2C659&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/0Screenshot-2025-05-23-180548.png?w=1402&amp;ssl=1 1402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yt3.ggpht.com\/ytc\/AIdro_nbFC65TF2vSmRND-z-tSnTQczJF6jiadJT6myXzyUVVEE=s48-c-k-c0x00ffffff-no-rj\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:53px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@HeartlandInstitute\">The Heartland Institute<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Donald Trump achieved a major political and policy victory on Thursday when the U.S. House of Representatives passed what he calls his \u201cBig Beautiful Bill.\u201d The less-creative name is the budget reconciliation bill, which presidents for years have used to implement large parts of their agenda. (That\u2019s how we got \u201cObamacare.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bill includes many of Trump\u2019s economic policy promises, such as tax cuts, but also rolls back much of the \u201cgreen\u201d energy and climate policies the Biden administration imposed via the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Join Heartland\u2019s Anthony Watts, Linnea Lueken, H. Sterling Burnett, Jim Lakely, and special guest Steve Milloy LIVE at 1 p.m. ET for Episode #158 of The Climate Realism Show. We\u2019ll break down the good, the bad, and the disappointing in the Big Beautiful Bill. 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