Why Republicans Might Oppose Trump’s Push to Undo Biden’s Triumphs

The New York Times ^ | Dec. 3, 2024, 9:48 a.m. ET | Zolan Kanno-Youngs and Madeleine Ngo

[E. Pluribus Unum]

President-elect Donald J. Trump has promised to unravel President Biden’s major legislation when he takes office next month, but Mr. Biden is hoping to salvage his most prized policies with help from an unlikely source: Republicans.

With just weeks left in office, Mr. Biden and his aides have emphasized that his signature economic legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act, overwhelmingly benefits Republican districts, in the hopes that Mr. Trump would face blowback from his own party if he repealed it.

The administration is also racing to award hundreds of millions of dollars in grants and finalize environmental regulations to lock in Mr. Biden’s economic agenda, including ramping up domestic manufacturing of clean energy products and semiconductors.

“They are not going to want to undermine those jobs and those businesses that we know for the first time are really strong in so many districts around the country that have been left behind under trickle-down policies,” Lael Brainard, Mr. Biden’s national economic adviser, said in an interview.

Roughly 80 percent of new clean energy manufacturing investments announced since the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022 have flowed to Republican congressional districts, according to data from Atlas Public Policy, a research firm.

Mr. Trump and his allies have attacked the legislation, which provides at least $390 billion over 10 years in tax breaks, grants and subsidies for wind and solar power, electric vehicle battery production and other clean energy projects.

Mr. Trump, who has called global warming a “scam,” wants to claw back money included in the law, which some estimates have found could cost as much as $1.2 trillion over 10 years.

“We will rescind all unspent funds under the misnamed Inflation Reduction Act,” Mr. Trump said in September.

Mr. Trump has also attacked the CHIPS and Science...

[DAC21]

The New York Times brain trust that came up with this tripe. America hating Gen Z retards.

[BigFreakinToad]

And what might that be? Walking upstairs, not soiling himself for a whole day?

[BlueStateRightist]

“The New York Times brain trust that came up with this tripe. America hating Gen Z retards.”

But...quite DIVERSE!

[rlmorel]

Ahh. Two Affirmative Action hires without a brain cell between them.

[SaxxonWoods]

The Times meant “Deep State” but the writer isn’t about to say so.

[albie]

“Triumphs”?! Like making it to the toilet to go poo poo?

[OldHarbor]

Here is a Triumph, a smashed up one. Biden’s Ill gotten presidency is a wreck, history won’t be kind

[The Antiyuppie]

I’m just imagining reporters and editors just sitting around a table for half the day trying to come up with “how can we screw Trump” angles on....EVERYTHING.

It’s getting boring.
It should be embarrassing.

[Vaquero]

Triumphs??? Like the car or the motorcycle?

[tumblindice]

A few FODs (friends of democrats) RINOs are desperate to salvage defeat from the tremendous victory of the American people and Donald Trump over treachery, tyranny and stupidity last November 5.
They should be flogged.

[TnTnTn]

Triumphs????…what fn triumphs pray tell?🤬🤬🤬

[absalom01]

It’s got to be tough to be a writer at the Babylon Bee with the Times giving them this much competition.

[Organic Panic]

I wonder how many times Judas counted his silver pieces?

[Wuli]

Money, money, money and Biden’s policies spread his borrowed triliions around the country, to the delight of even some GOP House members who now won’t want to see that spending pulled back.

[ridesthemiles]

Please LIST such TRIUMPHS-—

I CANNOT THINK OF A SINGLE ONE

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Please LIST such TRIUMPHS-— I CANNOT THINK OF A SINGLE ONE

I finally thought of one! TEN PERCENT FOR THE BIG GUY!

[GreyFriar]

I thought Biden had a Corvette Stingray, not a Triumph.

[Does so]

“My guess is that English isn’t their native tongue.”
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Use the common spelling for reporter Zolan Kanno-Youngs...

[GrumpyOldGuy]

What triumphs? He had NO triumphs that are not connected to corruption, tyranny, and loss of morals.

[right way right]

Does our constitution allow for the President to pardon anyone who has been complicit in crimes….actually committed with the President?