Will climate tax credits stay or go?

Make Me Smart

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🗓️ 11 March 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Kai and Kimberly discuss the future of Biden-era clean energy tax credits under Trump 2.0. A group of GOP lawmakers want them to stay. Meanwhile, the administration is rescinding memos that pushed for climate change-resilient infrastructure. Plus, the hosts weigh in on the arrest of a Palestinian activist and Columbia University student by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. Is this the first arrest of “many to come?” Finally, we’ll smile as the cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., get closer to full bloom.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

“Trump Says Columbia Student Arrest Is First of Many to Come” from The Wall Street Journal
“House Republican support grows for keeping clean energy tax breaks” from Politico
“Transportation secretary rescinds Biden memos prioritizing infrastructure resilience to climate change” from The Hill
“2025 Cherry Blossom Peak Bloom Forecasts” from DC Cherry Blossom Watch

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0:00.0	I'm gonna go all those waited for me until I got my water.
0:05.6	Hey everybody, I'm Kyle Rosdahl. Welcome back to Make Me Smart. Where we make today makes sense.
0:12.6	I'm Kimberly Adams. Thank you for joining us on this Monday, March the 10th. It is a news and a smile kind of day, starting with the news.
0:21.3	Mr. Ristall, you go ahead.
0:23.2	They have taken a lawful and legal permanent resident of this country and disappeared him.
0:30.5	It's just amazing.
0:32.0	This guy from Colombia, a pro-Palestinian activist and protester, who they have disappeared for basically doing things
0:41.1	aligned to, that's quote, aligned to Hamas. Now, there's no evidence, there's no nothing.
0:47.4	They have taken this guy. And after his lawyer filed a writ for habeas corpus in New York,
0:52.0	they moved him to Louisiana. It's unbelievable.
0:56.8	If they can do this to him, they can do it to anybody. Anybody. And to that point, there's an AP
1:04.5	story with the headline. Trump warns that the arrest of Palestinian activist at Columbia will be
1:09.8	the quote, first of many.
1:12.7	He actually, he had a whole truth social post about this, in which he said, at the end of it,
1:19.5	he threatened colleges and universities with more of the same. And in fact, there's a list out now
1:24.7	of colleges that have been warned by the Department of Justice that
1:29.5	there may be more quote unquote enforcement actions.
1:33.7	Not to mention that they're going after the federal funding.
1:38.9	Oh, yeah.
1:39.3	Oh, totally.
1:40.0	Sure.
1:40.4	Yeah.
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