These would be the same Democrats who refuse to give up their own use of fossil fuels and take the train instead of flights, right?
Democrats eye changes to climate spending clawbacks
Democratic senators are plotting ways to reduce or eliminate proposed cuts to international clean energy and climate programs in the White House’s rescissions package ahead of crucial Senate votes this week.
The eleventh-hour push to narrow the scope of the energy and environment clawbacks comes as the chamber prepares to finalize and then pass the Trump administration’s first set of formal funding repeals focused on public broadcasting and foreign aid.
The effort to strike the cuts may not succeed amid growing Republican momentum behind the package and some White House concessions to GOP lawmakers.
But it could give Democrats yet another platform from which to bash the GOP for pursuing policies that they say will threaten energy security, raise electricity prices and further erode the United States’ reputation as a global leader in the fight against climate change.
No one believes this but Politico. Solar and wind are not reducing energy prices, and are also making energy less reliable. But, the government money is a great way to hook up campaign donors to Democrats.
The legislation needs only a simple majority to pass, and it must get the president’s signature by midnight Friday in order to rescind the funds in question.
The legislation, championed by Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought, would target the United States’ fiscal 2025 contributions to multilateral environmental efforts such as the Montreal Protocol and the Clean Technology Fund.
It would repeal $496 million in already appropriated funds for international disaster and humanitarian aid. And it would claw back millions more approved dollars for economic assistance and foreign aid programs that often address environmental issues abroad.
It’s all scam money, which ends up in the pockets of Dem friendly NGOs and companies, and does little to help the people it is reportedly meant to help.
“How many people went to the polls and told politicians to spend $7.4 million of their hard-earned money on teaching foreign countries about ‘environmental racism’? No one,” Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) quipped on the Senate floor, referring to a program the administration says the bill will target.
It all adds up. And most goes into someone’s pocket. None of this is authorized by the Constitution as specific spending priority.
The Trump administration on Tuesday said it deported a group of men convicted of violent crimes to the small African country of Eswatini, in its latest expansion of deportations to far-flung places that are not deportees’ home countries.
Winter nor’easters have steadily grown more severe over the last eight decades, and they will become even worse if climate change is not dealt with, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Pennsylvania professor.
The Trump administration on Monday took another step to make it harder to find major, legally mandated scientific assessments of how climate change is endangering the nation and its people.
The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the Trump administration may fire more than half of the Department of Education’s workforce — mass terminations that, in Education Secretary Linda McMahon’s words, are “
The State Department on Friday fired the remaining staff working in the office responsible for international climate policy, including annual U.N. negotiations related to climate treaties, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The Trump administration has declared that immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally are no longer eligible for a bond hearing as they fight deportation proceedings in court, according to documents reviewed by The Washington Post.
