NEW POLL: Americans Back Keeping Trump Tax Cuts and Boosting U.S. Energy Dominance

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Rainey Center
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Washington, D.C. – As Congress pushes forward on the 2025 Big Beautiful Bill reconciliation bill, a new nationwide survey from the Rainey Center offers key insights into voter preferences on energy investment, tax cuts, and fiscal tradeoffs. The findings reveal strong bipartisan support for expanding domestic energy production and durable support for tech-neutral energy tax credits, even after opposition messaging. As Congress debates reconciliation, the strong preferences of voters for technology-neutral tax credits should be reflected in the legislation. 

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Extend TCJA, But Don’t Kill American Energy Dominance

“Americans want energy security and economic wins,” said Sarah Hunt, Rainey Center President. “Voters cheer clean energy innovation and tax cuts for working families. Congress, ditch the green new scam, extend Trump’s tax cuts, and power up U.S. energy dominance!”

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Poll Finds Strong Support for Energy Innovation Tech-Neutral Tax Credits

  • Six in ten adults back the credit for companies that build or produce clean energy (26% strongly, 34% somewhat). Opposition is 16%, with 24% unsure, a net +45‑point net margin.
  • An identical 60% favor credits for U.S. manufacturing of clean energy equipment (18 % oppose, net +42).
  • Credits for hydrogen manufacturing (56% support / 15% oppose, net +40), carbon‑capture deployment (56 / 16, +40) draw broad approval.
  • The tech‑neutral umbrella covering geothermal, solar, nuclear, natural‑gas, and carbon capture and storage (58 / 17, +42)  have strong support, including majority support among Republicans (52/21, +32).
  • Voters also support the nuclear energy production credit on net: 42% support, 26%  oppose, 32% unsure.

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Electric Vehicle Tax Credits Face Resistance

The $7,500 credit for individual EV purchases elicits 38% support and 36% opposition, driven by Republicans opposing it by 24 points on net and Democrats supporting it by 29 points on net.

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Public Support Is Durable To Opposition Messaging

  • Asked whether Congress should end the credits because clean energy is less reliable than oil and coal, or keep them to prevent electricity bill hikes, voters choose to keep the credits 46% to 15%; 39% are unsure.
  • Another argument focused on slowing nuclear energy development if credits disappear yields a similar 44% to 17% split.

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The Rainey Center conducted a survey with an online sample of 1,853 respondents fielded over web panels from May 10th to May 12th, 2025, and weighted to reflect national distributions of education, age, gender, race, and 2024 Presidential vote, with a margin of error of +/- 2.8 percentage points. Margins of error for subgroup means are larger.

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Click here to read the polling data.

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