As President Donald Trump considers changes to the Inflation Reduction Act, more than $100 billion in electric vehicle manufacturing investment and about 84,000 jobs are at stake in states he won in November's election.
Ninety percent — or $105 billion — of the EV manufacturing investment announced since the passage of the act went to Republican-leaning states, according to an Automotive News analysis of Atlas Public Policy data.
The most investment is slated for Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Michigan and Indiana — with more than $12.5 billion each. By comparison, just $11 billion of the announced investments went to states that voted for Democrat Kamala Harris.
Some Republican members of Congress are pushing to keep the incentives to bolster the economies of their districts.
Many repeated a phrase that has circulated in Republican lawmakers' recent discussions of the act: Refine the law with a scalpel, not a sledgehammer.
— Hannah Lutz
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