Yet, the White House refused to budge on cutting cold turkey the hundreds of billions of dollars in clean energy tax credits. Finding the perfect balance between centrists and conservatives on energy tax credits was extremely difficult, lawmakers and aides said. “There was no issue that the president emphasized as wasteful spending more than the green energy tax subsidies,” Arrington told the Washington Examiner. To Wright’s surprise, the biggest revolt was on the clean energy tax credits. Months earlier, Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) organized a letter alongside 20 other House Republicans urging against wholesale repeal of the clean energy tax credits.