Posted on 04/10/2024 9:51:26 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Joe Biden is spending more than $1 trillion on his climate agenda, but it does not seem to be resonating at all with voters in battleground states, according to new polling from The Wall Street Journal.
Only 2% of registered voters surveyed named climate change as the most important issue in the 2024 election, compared to 25% who identified immigration as the top issue and 22% who indicated that the economy was their top concern, according to the WSJ’s poll. The White House has touted Biden’s massive green agenda as “the most ambitious climate, conservation, and environmental justice agenda” in U.S. history.
The WSJ surveyed 2,100 registered voters in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin — the seven states that most pundits believe will determine whether or not Biden gets a second term — between March 17 and March 24. The poll has a margin of error of 2.1 percentage points.
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), Biden’s signature climate bill, contains subsidies for green energy that could ultimately cost about $1.2 trillion, according to estimates published by Goldman Sachs. Beyond the IRA, the administration has spent and regulated aggressively to push electric vehicles (EVs) on Americans, promulgated stringent rules to reshape the American power grid and rejoined the United Nations’ Paris Climate Accords after former President Donald Trump withdrew from the agreement.
The results of the WSJ’s poll appear to align with a similar poll conducted by MWR Strategies that found only 3% of swing state voters identified climate change as the most important problem America faces.
While Biden’s climate agenda may not be hitting home for voters, environmentalist groups have largely applauded Biden’s policies on the issue, typically criticizing him only when he is perceived to have not gone far enough from a policy perspective. Major environmental groups, their war chests and their activist voters figure to be key sources of support for Biden as election day draws closer.
The Biden campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
the president isn’t supposed to be able to spend a DIME! much less a trillion without congressional approval!
I am sick of this crap!
It’s all “free” so what does any of it matter?
I believe most people do care but so far we’ve been unable to stop those who’ve sold us out. They’re out of control. I don’t know what it will take.
He can because the SPINELESS POS RINOS are democrats…they don’t give a 💩 what you think or what you want the government to do!! They are willfully participants. And right before our eyes our nation is morphing into a third world dictatorship nation just like Brazil, the UK, and Venezuela etc..Those nations used to have freedom of speech, freedoms of everything, and now look at them. They are under the heavy boot on their necks dictatorships, along with invaders who have taken over their nations and imposing their own laws! How long before America will have to accept Shira and God knows what the Haitians, Africans and other Third World nationalities invaders are bringing with them as well. Sad days my friends sad days ahead.
Here’s the real question the pollsters won’t ask:
The federal government spent over $1 trillion on climate change this year. Do you think this is:
A. Too much
B. Not enough
C: Just right
Bet A gets the most responses!
D. A dollar is too much
The climate hysteria continues, and he has done nothing to relieve it…much less resolved it.
The problem is a good chunk of voters have no idea that congress must appropriate the money.
So the executive just spends the money and expects that taxpayer to pick up the tab.
Congress will suddenly find this power again when President Trump is reelected.
“It’s all “free” so what does any of it matter?”
It is not much of an accomplishment to print $1 trillion when you have the printing press at the Treasury. His climate spending is the equivalent of pay $1 trillions to dig a huge hole and then fill it back in and pat himself on the back. You can spend a trillion paying people to clean the streets with a toothbrush, but this doesn’t help anyone much.
I doubt they don’t care, but maybe they figure there’s bigger fish to fry.
Or maybe just too many people have been brainwashed into believing the whole climate crisis crap.
If Sniffer and his followers would concentrate on the last 1-3 million years, instead of last 20 years, they would be closer to the truth.
They will care when the bill comes due.
Here in Washington state Governor Inslee signed a new Climate bill to “reduce” use of natural gas. That is how it was sold, but it actually says to reduce the use and figure out how to be completely carbon free in the future.
The gas company put out a statement saying that in the near future electrical rates will be 75% higher and natural gas will be 150% higher. It seems crazy to think that they will ban natural gas for all of the home furnaces and water heaters, but the state will be banning the sale or registration of new gasoline cars in 2030!
Note - I just saw a garbage truck with a sign on it - “Powered by clean LNG”.
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