"Once the contracts are in place, once things are approved and the federal government gets the money out the door, it's a huge challenge to try to pull that money back," says David Friedman, director of federal policy at the nonprofit Rewiring America. This emphasizes the challenge in reversing clean energy incentives once they are established.
"A new administration would basically have to turn around to all of those states and say, 'Sorry, we're not going to help - we're not going to help about $9 billion go into your residents' pockets,'" Friedman argues, highlighting the political difficulty of undermining existing financial support for clean energy.
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