Biden Admin Quietly Waived 'Buy America' Rules on $7B Solar Program, Allowing Taxpayer Funds To...

The green revolution that wasn't: Joe Biden spent years promising Americans that his green energy agenda would create "good-paying union jobs." Critics spent years warning that the agenda would actually help China, given Beijing's grip on the green industry.
Who was right? Days before leaving office, our Thomas Catenacci reports, Biden's EPA quietly waived "Build America, Buy America" rules for its flagship $7 billion solar program. That program was supposed to "strengthen solar manufacturing and protect manufacturers and workers from China's unfair trade practices." But the Biden administration determined that its goals of "climate action and energy justice" were more important—and impossible to achieve without Chinese products—so it issued a one-year waiver scrapping the "Buy America" rules.
"The waiver, which remains in effect and has largely gone undetected, ultimately enables Chinese manufacturers to reap the benefits of billions of dollars in American taxpayer funding under the Solar for All program," writes Catenacci. "Biden's secretive waiver underscores the tension between Democrats' green energy objectives and broader goals to boost domestic manufacturing—in addition to solar panels and solar components, electric vehicle batteries, wind turbines, and long-duration utility batteries are largely sourced from manufacturers overseas."