Who Won the U.S. Presidential Debate?

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks with reporters in the U.S. Capitol after the last votes of the week on Thursday, September 12, 2024.

U.S House Speaker Mike Johnson said he would preserve some of the clean energy tax credits enacted under President Joe Biden but would seek to eliminate others, as an upcoming battle over taxes next year comes into focus in Washington.

In an interview with CNBC, the Louisiana Republican said it would be impossible to "blow up" the entirety of Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, a sweeping climate and economic package signed into law in 2022.

"You've got to use a scalpel and not a sledgehammer, because there's a few provisions in there that have helped overall," Johnson said at the Riggs Washington D.C. hotel on Tuesday. He added that most of the law was "terribly harmful to the economy."

Johnson declined to specify which provisions he would support keeping in place, saying he's "not putting any of that on the table yet."

Johnson is not the only Republican who wants to keep parts of the IRA intact, nor is he the only one who won't specify what, specifically, he would leave in place.

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