GOP Plots Legal Challenge To Inflation Reduction Act

August 12, 2022 Politics, Republicans

House Republicans are planning to try to open up Democrats’ $740 billion tax, climate and health care bill to a legal challenge after it passes, Axios has learned. The move is Republicans’ way of showing their base that they’re going to great lengths to kill the legislation, which is likely to be unanimously opposed by House Republicans.

Republicans, led by members of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, plan to get “as many members as possible to vote by proxy” in order to deny Democrats a physical quorum. The bill would still pass, but Republicans hope a company affected by the tax provisions in the bill will then sue to challenge the law’s constitutionality.

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Scoop: Republicans plan to vote by proxy en masse today in the hopes of denying Democrats a physical quorum and opening up the Inflation Reduction Act to a legal challenge, per two senior GOP aides.@axios https://t.co/3CWZuOQYq7

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) August 12, 2022