# Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act

Date: 2022

## The fact

On 7 August 2022 [Vice President Harris](/people/kamala-harris) cast the Senate tie-breaking vote to pass the Inflation Reduction Act.

## Context

Manchin and [Sinema](/people/kyrsten-sinema) sat as veto players. Neighbouring ARP is 2021. She did not write the House climate titles alone.

ARP 2021 is neighbouring. PACT Act is a different 2022 tie.

The Vice President of the United States presides over the Senate, casts tie-breaking votes, and carries delegated [White House](/organizations/white-house) portfolios. She does not write House bills, CBP operational orders, or Federal Reserve rate decisions. A vice president is not co-author of every presidential statute.

## Evidence and sources

United States Senate carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is decarbonisation and fiscal: a completed climate-and-tax statute is a dated industrial-and-household instrument.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 7 August 2022 Harris tie-break on the IRA, independently reported.

Not established: a unique later emissions coefficient from that Sunday, or that she drafted every tax title.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Senate majority built the text. [Biden](/people/env-person-joe-biden) signed. Agencies implemented.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act, not a later speech about Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act on 2022-08-07 is not a licence to treat every later United States Senate communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Harris casts the Senate tie-breaking vote for the Inflation Reduction Act into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to She broke the tie. The Senate majority built the text. Biden signed. Agencies implemented. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Kamala Harris: https://factrail.ai/people/kamala-harris

## Drivers

- Decarbonization and climate-mitigation policy: https://factrail.ai/drivers/env-decarbonization-policy
- Industrial-Policy Activism: https://factrail.ai/drivers/industrial-policy-activism

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/us/senate-passes-inflation-reduction-act-harris-tie-break-2022-08-07/
- https://www.senate.gov/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/us-harris-ira-2022