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Cato Weekly Podcast • March 11, 2025 

# Ending the Inflation Reduction Act Could Save Trillions in Handouts 

The Inflation Reduction Act didn’t do much to stem inflation, but it did commit taxpayers to decades of special handouts for preferred technologies. Cato’s Travis Fisher and Joshua Loucks discuss their [new paper](https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/budgetary-cost-inflation-reduction-acts-energy-subsidies#updated-estimates-iras-10-year-budget-cost) describing the budgetary impact.

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