The Truth Behind the
One Big Ugly Budget Bill
We were told that hard work pays off. That we could build a better life with affordable bills, a steady job you could count on, a safer future for our kids, and the opportunity to choose how to improve our homes and lives.
Now, that promise is broken!
The One Big Ugly Budget Bill guts tax credits that helped Nevadans get solar, upgrade our homes to fight off extreme heat, and drive clean cars — all while lowering costs and creating local jobs. It threatens projects and factories in Fernley, Sparks, Storey County, and beyond. And it raises our power bill while handing more power and profits to out-of-state billionaires and corporations.
These are kitchen table issues
This big, brutal budget bill hits us hard on the issues that we talk about with our families around the kitchen table.
We feel it when the energy bill spikes. When a hiring freeze hits local businesses. When running the A/C, you have to choose between health and cost during a heatwave.
The One Big Ugly Budget Bill was never about balancing the budget. It was about ripping away what hard-working families were just starting to build.
Big promises made.
Big betrayal.
Bigger bills showed up.
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Who is responsible for the
Big Ugly Budget Bill?
Nevada’s Senators Cortez Masto and Jacky Rosen and Representatives Titus, Horsford, and Lee stood firm for Nevada and voted against this Big Ugly Budget Bill.
But Congressman Amodei voted YES.
Yes to higher bills. Yes to fewer jobs.
Yes to putting billionaires first!
"This was supposed to cover groceries. Instead,
I’m stuck with a high energy bill, thanks to politicians who voted to kill cost-saving clean energy programs.”
Higher Energy Bills,
Fewer Options
Clean energy has become the cheapest power on the grid — and it’s been helping to keep our energy bills from rising even higher. But the One Big Ugly Bill throws that progress out the window.
By gutting clean energy tax credits, the big, ugly budget bill makes rooftop solar more expensive for Nevada homeowners. It also eliminates rebates for making home upgrades like insulation, efficient windows and doors, and heat pumps that help bring down monthly energy bills.
What does that mean for families? Nevada households will pay $300 more on energy bills every year by 2030. That’s a car payment. A week’s worth of groceries. A medical bill you can’t ignore. Clothes for your children.
And in cities like Las Vegas and Reno — already some of the fastest-warming in the country — those costs hit even harder during extreme heat.
This bill doesn’t just hurt clean energy. It sticks working families with the tab — while billionaires and polluters cash in.
Nevada Emerging as a
Clean Energy Powerhouse
Nevada has become a solar and battery manufacturing powerhouse. Clean energy is not just what we believe in; it’s what we build.
Since 2022, the transformative federal investments from the Inflation Reduction Act have brought over $15.5 billion to Nevada, creating 21,000 good-paying jobs — the sixth-highest in the country.
From gigafactories in Sparks to battery recycling in East Reno to solar manufacturing in Las Vegas, clean energy is creating careers in every corner of our state — diversifying our economy.
We don’t have oil or methane gas in Nevada — but we do have 300 days of sunshine a year. Solar is our state’s most abundant and most affordable resource. It’s no wonder that Nevada is the nation’s leader in solar jobs per capita!
If clean energy is the future, then Nevada was already living in it.
The One Big Ugly Bill takes away the very tax credits that made these job-creating projects possible.
And nowhere is that threat more real than in Nevada’s 2nd Congressional District, represented by Congressman Amodei.
His district attracted more than $11 billion in clean energy investments, resulting in over 15,000 good-paying jobs.
It’s the most clean-energy-invested GOP district in the country.
Congressman Amodei voted for the One Big Ugly Bill and sabotaged our growing economy, thousands of jobs, and the families who rely on them.
Killing Clean Energy
Puts Us All At Risk
Getting rid of key clean energy tax credits means we delay the buildout of new solar, wind, and battery storage projects. That slows job growth and increases our dependence on volatile, out-of-state fossil fuels like methane gas to power our homes and businesses.
At a time when energy demand is skyrocketing, we need more reliable and clean energy sources to power — and stabilize — our grid.
Last year, solar, wind, and batteries made up 93% of the new energy supply. That’s what’s keeping the lights on and AC running during heatwaves.
Cutting clean energy now doesn’t just slow progress — it puts our grid, our jobs, and our health at risk when we need them most.
Higher power bills and broken promises are brought to you by Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.’