Posted on 07/20/2022 11:06:33 AM PDT by Red Badger
President Joe Biden will visit Somerset, Massachusetts on Wednesday, to deliver an ultimatum to Congress on climate change despite a major lack of support from voters.
President Joe Biden will visit Somerset, Massachusetts on Wednesday, to deliver an ultimatum to Congress on climate change despite a major lack of support from voters. Biden says that if they do not vote to put his environmental agenda into action, then he will use his own powers to combat the issue.
With his climate plan facing setbacks from Republicans and moderate Democrats on Capitol Hill, the president plans to visit the Brayton Point power plant, reported NBC Boston. The plant is an old coal-powered facility that is now transitioning to offshore wind manufacturing. Biden will deliver remarks on "tackling the climate crisis and seizing the opportunity of a clean energy future to create jobs and lower costs for families," according to the White House.
Biden is expected to force federal funds toward communities facing high levels of heat, while taking executive action to boost domestic offshore wind production, an anonymous White House official told the Washington Post.
Some of the major setbacks on Biden's climate agenda come from within his own party, with Sen. Joe Manchin III of West Virginia last week informing Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that he does not support the party's plan to allocate billions of dollars to fighting climate change.
"I said, 'Chuck until we see the July inflation figures… basically Federal Reserve rates, interest rates, then let's wait till that comes out so we know that we're going down a path that won't be inflammatory, to add more to inflation,' " Manchin said on the Talkline radio show.
Manchin isn't the only one who isn't feeling strongly about pushing forward federal funding to tackle the climate change issue. According to a New York Times poll, just one percent of Americans hold climate change as the most important issue facing the country. The poll, which was covered by Fox News, showed that even out of Democratic voters and the ages 18-30 demographic, only 3% say it's a top issue.
Biden has been facing some major problems as of late, with his own party criticizing him for not having a more forceful response to the overturn of Roe v. Wade, and with Americans in general financially hurting from the highest levels of inflation the country has seen in 40 years. Only one percent of young voters between the ages of 18 and 29 "strongly approve" of the president's work, and the overall approval rating of 36 percent has matched the record low. The push for a multi-billion-dollar climate agenda seems to be the least of the average citizen's worries.
While Biden is not expected to declare a national climate emergency during the address in Somerset, he is considering making the move in the near future.
"I would not plan an announcement this week on a national climate emergency. Again, everything is on the table. It's just not going to be this week on that decision," White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters on Tuesday.
Jo Byeme needs his plugs recalibrated.
Absolutely. THEN it makes sense.
We LIVE with these people. That is a tad unsettling.
That gives me the freaking creeps. I am surely (Shirley) a homophobe (probably not, No irrational fear). Just disgusted at the immorality.
Biden said he going to install many wind turbines off the coast of Massachusetts the nor’easter storms will make shrapnel out of them house hit by blade news at 11:00.
But!
We know how the Fed. then engages in blackmail.
Refuse to lower the speed limit in your state, adopt the Fed. age of consent, or any other push and your state will be cut off from varied Fed. funding.
Highway funds, Medicare, and anything else to prevent your reps from “Bringing home the bacon”.
Even the best quickly cave in.
That is an absolute truth.
It will wind up being exactly like the Solyndra scam. Just another democommie slush fund they will use to enrich themselves...
Like always, this will be fought in the courts.
He will block fertilizer from being used. Gas and diesel prices will go even higher.
November elections are our hope to stop these democrats.
States are sovereign and can tell Joe to take his illegal EOs and shove them up his black hole.
lol i had a suburban once that burned oil like crazy- took it on a trip around the US- eventually totaled the vehicle- it needed work bad- but the accident proved it’s undoing- i don’t know how i didn’t burn that engine up- I’d pull into a station on the trip and have to put 2 quarts or more in several times on the trip- rode around with a smashed out back window for a month in the winter with it once- not good- had to keep the front windows down because the exhaust fumes woudl be too much to handle- that was back when i was tough and stupid though lol- (I did get enough $$ to fix it eventually- but it was a cob job, with plywood, plexiglass and roofing ice and snow shield as the hinge lol- but it worked-)
November elections are our hope to stop these dumbasses........................
That makes you wrong! The sun has nothing to do with it. THE SON does.
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