The Alaska senator thought she’d negotiated an agreement to protect solar and wind projects. Then she learned otherwise.

By Murkowski’s own admission, her party’s megabill — the inaptly named One Big Beautiful Bill Act — was a mess. She told reporters she didn’t the like the bill; she considered it unfinished; she insisted the bill was “not ready for the president’s desk”; and she declared publicly that the legislation was “not good enough” for the American public.

Murkowski then voted for it anyway, hoping that House Republicans would make necessary changes. They soon after said they wouldn’t even try to improve the package, making the Alaskan’s gamble look even worse.

The senator told her local newspaper the White House’s policy “just pulls the rug out from underneath the deal” she’d made.