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

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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 Trump would face blowback from his own party if he repealed it.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...

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“Triumphs?”

Like the blanket pardon of Humper?

[Red Badger]

Offhand, I can’t think of any.........

[BenLurkin]

What triumphs?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"Roughly 80 percent of new clean energy manufacturing investments announced since the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022 have flowed to Republican congressional districts"
I find that VERY hard to believe. That is pure BS.

"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."
Let the damn green stuff stand on its own economic merits. It if made economic sense, the market would choose it and we would not need decades (maybe centuries) of federal life support.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

The grifting GOP bankrupted our country. They are not going to un-bankrupt it.

[rktman]

No worries nyt. Swamp rinos will be tossing road blocks in any case. Can’t let outsiders disrupt the gravy trains.

[MNJohnnie]

US voters do you want these boondoggles or do you want lower fuel/food/housing costs?

[Manic_Episode]

Way too many words in this piece.

My more concise version would be:

Why? $!

[Obadiah]

LOL, like a scantily clad woman in a redlight district, the NYTimes is trying to openly solicit RINOs. “Hey big boy, you wanna great some press from the NYTimes and the liberal media, then all you have to do is oppose Trump.”

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Republicans in those districts will work for low wages while the DEMOCRAT owners will get rich. It appears it IS time for a revolution and permanent housecleaning.

[JimRed]

So, we are going back from climate change to global warming?

If every government on earth confiscated every penny beyond survival from every person and spent it all on climate, they could not affect the global temperature by 1°, or the ocean levels by an inch.

[Robert DeLong]

With triumph’s that resemble defeats, who needs triumphs?

[Bubba Ho-Tep]

Let the damn green stuff stand on its own economic merits. It if made economic sense, the market would choose it and we would not need decades (maybe centuries) of federal life support.

Lets also drop the fossil fuel subsidies and really see the results.

[alancarp]

It’s gotta be so hard working for the NYT and having to dream up fantasy-world stories every day.

[Eli Kopter]

This is a poorly written, poorly research push article.

[Gay State Conservative]

I think that that should read “Why Rat Party Headquarters Hopes Republicans Will Block Trump’s Plans”

[Gay State Conservative]

Look at the authors.My guess is that English isn’t their native tongue.

[quantim]

The keywords say it all and that’s just the beginning:

gopestablishment; rinos; tds; uniparty

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

On going off the deep end, aka: out of control propagandic punditry.