Republican Rep. Joe Wilson believes former President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law was “fraud.” He dislikes the tax credits it created for solar power and electric vehicles. He’s not opposed to clean energy, he said, he’s just not interested in taxpayers funding it.

But he is proud of the development of a Scout Motors electric vehicle factory and the 4,000 jobs it stands to create in his South Carolina district. The project, under construction about 15 miles north of Columbia, is relying at least in part on funding from the climate law, but Wilson thinks they’d move forward with the venture even if Republicans carry out Trump’s desire to kill the clean energy credits in an upcoming budget vote .

“I have not discussed this with (the company), but it would be my view from my visit

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