Scrap the Green New Deal and put all forms of American-made energy on the same playing field
Scrap the Green New Deal and put all forms of American-made energy on the same playing field.
Occurrences
Evidence
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House Roll Call 134 shows H.R. 4690, the Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act, passed 215-202 on April 22, 2026; the roll-call page records Ryan Zinke of Montana voting Yea.
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The clerk's roll-call page shows H.R. 4758, the Homeowner Energy Freedom Act, passed 210-199 on February 25, 2026; Ryan Zinke's vote is listed as Yea.
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Zinke's office said the House passed the 2026 Farm, Food, and National Security Act, and highlighted that the bill 'modernizes rural development and energy programs' while including six provisions he sponsored or co-sponsored.
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Congress.gov records H.R. 1 as becoming Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025. The CRS summary says the law terminates multiple energy-related tax benefits, including the alternative fuel refueling property credit, energy efficient home improvement credit, residential clean energy credit, new energy efficient home credit, and special five-year cost recovery for certain solar and wind property, and limits or terminates other clean electricity, clean hydrogen, wind, and solar credits.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 190 on H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, as passed 218-214 on July 3, 2025; Ryan Zinke of Montana is listed as voting Aye.
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Executive Order 14154 states U.S. policy to encourage energy production on federal lands and waters, remove regulatory barriers and subsidies favoring electric vehicles, review agency actions burdening domestic energy resources, revoke several Biden climate and clean-energy executive orders, and includes a section titled Terminating the Green New Deal that pauses certain IRA and infrastructure-law disbursements pending review.
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The reported text of H.R. 4690 would repeal certain federal building energy efficiency performance standards and provide that a green-building certification system may not bar certification solely because of direct or indirect fossil-fuel consumption.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 134 on H.R. 4690, the Reliable Federal Infrastructure Act, as passed 215-202 on April 22, 2026; Ryan Zinke of Montana is listed as voting Yea.
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The reported text of H.R. 4758 would repeal provisions of Public Law 117-169 relating to a high-efficiency electric home rebate program, state-based home energy efficiency contractor training grants, and assistance for latest and zero building energy code adoption, and would rescind unobligated balances for specified programs.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 78 on H.R. 4758, the Homeowner Energy Freedom Act, as passed 210-199 on February 25, 2026; Ryan Zinke of Montana is listed as voting Yea.
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Zinke's office announced House passage of the Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2026 and said the bill modernizes rural development and energy programs while including six provisions he sponsored or co-sponsored; the release says the bill then headed to the Senate.
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The White House energy priority page says executive actions dismantled red tape, federal lands and offshore areas were reopened for development, approval timelines were accelerated for oil, natural gas, coal, and nuclear capacity, BLM approved nearly 6,000 oil and gas drilling permits, and DOE/EPA terminated hundreds of Biden-era green-energy projects.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 294 on H.R. 1501, the Protecting Domestic Mining Act, as passed 218-201 on September 2, 2026; Ryan Zinke of Montana is listed as voting Yea.
Assessments
Zinke took same-term federal legislative actions aligned with the pledge, including voting for H.R. 1, enacted as Public Law 119-21, which rolled back several clean-energy tax benefits, and supporting House-passed bills aimed at reducing green-energy mandates and preserving fossil-fuel eligibility. However, the evidence does not show a comprehensive repeal of the broader Green New Deal policy agenda or a fully energy-neutral federal framework for all American-made energy. Some aligned executive actions were administration-wide rather than attributable to Zinke personally. This supports partial fulfillment with clear effort, not full delivery.
Zinke has taken concrete same-term action consistent with the pledge by voting for House-passed bills to roll back federal green-energy mandates and support broader energy choice, and by advancing related energy provisions in the House farm bill. However, the promised outcome is broad: scrapping the Green New Deal and placing all American-made energy sources on the same playing field. The evidence shows chamber-level legislative progress and policy effort, not final enactment or a completed federal policy change. Because he materially advanced the agenda but has not delivered the full promised outcome, partial credit is appropriate.