Accountability
President Biden says he’ll use executive power to pass climate regulations if Senate fails to pass legislation
President Joe Biden on Friday released a statement calling on the Senate “to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry.” Should they fail to do so, Biden said that he “will take strong executive action to meet this moment.”
Biden said in the statement: “My actions will create jobs, improve our energy security, bolster domestic manufacturing and supply chains, protect us from oil and gas price hikes in the future, and address climate change. I will not back down: the opportunity to create jobs and build a clean energy future is too important to relent.”
He also called on Democrats to pass legislation to “lower drug prices and to prevent an increase in health insurance premiums.”
“After decades of fierce opposition from powerful special interests, Democrats have come together, beaten back the pharmaceutical industry and are prepared to give Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices and to prevent an increase in health insurance premiums for millions of families with coverage under the Affordable Care Act,” the statement reads. “Families all over the nation will sleep easier if Congress takes this action. The Senate should move forward, pass it before the August recess, and get it to my desk so I can sign it.”
The White House statement comes after Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) said on Thursday that he wouldn’t support legislation which would add stricter regulations to reduce carbon emissions. Manchin also rejected tax hikes that would pay for its costs.
Manchin suggested that lawmakers hold off on passing such legislation until after inflation eases. “Can’t we wait to make sure that we do nothing to add to that?” Manchin said during a radio interview on West Virginia’s MetroNews, per Politico.
He added, “I can’t make that decision basically on taxes of any type and also on the energy and climate because it takes the taxes to pay for the investment in the clean technology that I’m in favor of. But I’m not going to do something and overreach that causes more problems.”
Democrats need Manchin’s support in order to advance the legislation in the Senate, which is currently split evenly between the two parties.
Terry A. Hurlbut has been a student of politics, philosophy, and science for more than 35 years. He is a graduate of Yale College and has served as a physician-level laboratory administrator in a 250-bed community hospital. He also is a serious student of the Bible, is conversant in its two primary original languages, and has followed the creation-science movement closely since 1993.
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The “Climate Mantra” is not about the climate or environment but is about controlling people and destroying the economy as well as freedom. Look at what was done in the 1960s and how the standards were constantly being altered. Then when President Reagan said it is time to set the standards and goals and stop constantly changing them he was accused of trying to pollute the planet. And note how the standard and goals everyone agreed on the 1960s were met and exceeded by the mid-1970s.
Learn the real history. And remember, the Sun, Earth, and Earth’s Orbit around the Sun control the climate. Learn about the Medieval Warm Period, the Little Ice Age, and “Year without a Summer”. Then look around the world and see where most pollution is coming from today. And Mr Biden, nor any President, can issue Executive Orders that not rooted in enforcing EXISTING LAWS. Mr Biden is engaging in sedition and High Crimes.