Posted on 07/08/2019 5:50:41 PM PDT by Innovative
In a White House speech that exhaustively documented his administration's environmental efforts, President Trump issued a new full-throated denunciation of the Green New Deal championed by top Democrats including New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, saying the proposal would devastate the economy and hit minorities the hardest.
The address was aimed at publicizing the often under-reported work by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as firing a political shot across the bow of Democrats who largely have dominated the conversation on climate change and related issues. It came as polls have shown Americans increasingly voicing concern over the environment.
"We have only one America. We have only one planet," Trump said at one point. But, "while we're focused on practical solutions, more than 100 Democrats in Congress now support the so-called Green New Deal. Their plan is estimated to cost our economy nearly $100 trillion -- a number unthinkable, a number not affordable even in the best of times."
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It would definitely kill the HVAC industry. People would freeze to death in the Northeast and Midwest states while people would die of heat strokes in the South and West due to no A/C. Glad that Trump is putting an emphasis on the harm this crap would do to minorities.
Green New Deal would crush America.
But that’s the whole idea.
one day, President Trump’s withdrawal from Paris will be seen as the greatest achievement of his presidency.
8 Jul: Daily Caller: Trump Administration Touts Record On The Environment
by Amber Athey
(EPA administrator Andrew) Wheeler also defended Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement, noting that other countries such as China and India had much looser standards under the agreement than the U.S. and adding that the U.S. has continued to decrease CO2 and methane emissions.
“So, regardless of whether we’re in the Paris Climate Accord or not, we continue to make progress on that front. But the Paris Climate Accord is unfair to the U.S. consumer, U.S. manufacturer, and the U.S. economy,” Wheeler said...
The administration’s celebration of its work on the environment comes as Democratic members of Congress and presidential candidates continue to advocate for sweeping environmental reforms that would likely have devastating effects on the economy...
https://dailycaller.com/2019/07/08/trump-administration-environmental-policy-event/
Bismark should have erased Paris when he had the chance...
When was the last Repub who had a no holds barred attitude?
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