It was sunny and warm for the end of November on the Rocky Boy’s Reservation in northern Montana. Joseph Eagleman was standing on a grassy hill, looking at a 20-panel solar array in the backyard of a Chippewa Cree elder.
It was built under the Solar for All program, a Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act-funded project that distributed $7 billion to build residential solar across the country. Here on Rocky Boy’s, around 200 homes would have received solar funded by the federal dollars.
This was the first to get panels in Queensville, a small community of modest homes in one of the reservation’s valleys. The home is brown, two stories, and fully electric, which is one of the requirements to qualify for Solar for All funding. Eagleman met me there to give me a tour of the panels that all but eliminated the resident’s $200–$300 monthly electricity bills, according to Eagleman.
Then came President Donald Trump. His administration cut Solar for All in August.
“It’s terrible. We were getting ready to take off,” Eagleman said.
Sue trump and his administration for cancelling what was already promised.
Trump: The promise is still here. It is still promised. Big beautiful promise.