At the same time, new last-minute inducements were unveiled for fossil fuels, including one classifying coal as a critical mineral when it comes to a government manufacturing credit.<\/p>\n
“We’re doing coal,” Trump said in an interview released over the weekend on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures,” where he also called solar energy projects “ugly as hell.”<\/p>\n The mix left fossil fuel advocates celebrating and clean energy advocates slamming the bill at a new, higher volume.<\/p>\n Tesla (TSLA<\/a>) CEO Musk, who worked in the White House before\u00a0his dramatic falling out with the president<\/a>, was perhaps the loudest voice in the latter group. He issued a series of weekend posts\u00a0calling the bill<\/a> “utterly insane and destructive [with] handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.”<\/p>\n The energy changes came as the deal’s top-line costs remained a key point of contention. A nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office tally released over the weekend showed the revised bill would add at least $3.3 trillion to the national debt.<\/p>\n That assessment<\/a>, which does not include additional interest costs, comes\u00a0after a similar analysis of the House package<\/a>\u00a0found a $2.4 trillion tab.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>