As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, President Joe Biden’s lame-duck administration is rushing forward with a green jobs program to counter Trump.
President Biden is “quietly winding down” the American Climate Corps (ACC), the de facto environmental public works program established in September 2023. presidential order Hire and train civilians to work on climate change projects. According to To environmental media organization Grist. The effort is a “precautionary measure” to make it more difficult for the incoming Trump administration to target 15,000 taxpayer-funded jobs. supported By ACC defended The move comes from progressive lawmakers such as Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. (Related article: Left-wing Parliament House staff demands 32-hour work week with ‘no pay cuts’)
Although Biden is nominally abolishing the ACC, employees of the multibillion-dollar program will keep their jobs. Many ACC programs, such as the Northern California Forestry Corps, have had limited funding for years, Grist reported. ACC’s various programs are also funded by a hodgepodge of federal agencies, including the Departments of Commerce, Interior, Agriculture, Labor and Energy, Environmental Protection Agency, and AmeriCorps, making it difficult for the Trump administration to reduce spending. There is a possibility that it will become. .
Biden’s September 2023 executive order claimed the ACC would “train young people in clean energy, environmental protection, and climate resiliency skills, create good-paying jobs, and tackle the climate crisis.” . We also aimed for “improvement.” [former] president [Franklin D.] “President Roosevelt’s Civilian Conservation Corps was created by redressing the racial and gender inequalities of the past and building a climate corps for today,” said Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey. This was stated at the ACC briefing session in January 2024.
Public works programs to combat climate change have drawn the ire of many Republicans and energy experts, with Kentucky Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell saying: description In November 2021, the program was described as “pure socialist wish-fulfillment”, noting that the ACC’s objective of creating jobs with taxpayer funds came at a time of extreme labor shortages.
Jason Isaacs, a former Republican Texas congressman and CEO of the American Energy Association, echoed McConnell’s sentiments in a written statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation. bank. These programs distort free markets, prioritize optics over measurable results, and provide no environmental benefits. Rather than solving real problems like energy reliability and affordability, these efforts misdirect resources that could foster innovation and economic prosperity. ”
Meanwhile, Steve Milloy, a senior fellow at the Institute for Energy and Environmental Law and a former member of Trump’s EPA transition team, told DCNF that Trump should rescind Biden’s 2023 executive order. President Trump should do the same. It is impossible for the Climate Corps to improve the weather, and it has not been authorized by Congress to begin with. ”
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The American Climate Corps is a military-style organization where people can apply to get paid to fight climate change while being “educated” about it.
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Ocasio-Cortez helped establish the program and recommended its creation as part of the Democratic Party’s campaign. Climate Change Countermeasures Headquartersand reintroduction The bill that would have established the ACC prior to Biden’s executive order.
“The so-called ‘climate change squad’ is a Green New Deal pipe dream, but it is so unpopular that President Biden cannot even pass it in a Democratic-controlled Congress, relying on a cobbled together web of leftists. We had no choice but to have wing groups to fund these fanciful tangerines with a mission to prioritize progressive lifestyle choices,” said the executive director of Consumers Union of Arizona. said former Attorney General O.H. Skinner. DCNF. “The Biden administration continues to waste as much taxpayer money as possible in its foolish effort to thwart the incoming Trump administration’s sensible policies that would lower prices for Americans.”
America’s Climate Change Corps did not respond to requests for comment.
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