U.S. House Minority Whip Steve Scalise criticized presidential candidate Biden’s energy plans, saying they would affect “hard-working families” and undo the progress the Trump administration has made on middle-class economic recovery.
Scalise said Biden’s energy policies would destroy jobs in the U.S. fossil fuel sector, increase energy costs for families and make the U.S. dependent on oil from Russia and the Middle East.
“When you look at President Trump’s efforts to reinvigorate the energy sector, we’re actually not only a dominant energy producer, we can create our own energy and are sending oil and gas to our allies around the world,” Scalise told Fox News on Friday.
Scalise praised Trump’s policies, saying they have helped the U.S. increase its energy independence and reduce its dependence on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). He also applauded the president’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, a move that helped increase jobs in the U.S. energy and manufacturing industries.
“The Paris Agreement is a failure. No country in Europe complied with it, and they exempted China from it, so that China would take manufacturing jobs away from many countries,” Scalise said.
“We don’t want that to happen in the U.S. We need to bring manufacturing back. We need to strengthen our economy, focus on helping hard-working families, be part of the middle class, and not allow the Chinese Communist Party to get the gains we made in Trump’s first term.”
The Trump administration began the formal process of withdrawing from the Paris Agreement in November 2019, which took a year to take effect.
According to the Biden/Harris campaign energy summary, Biden has stated that if he becomes President of the United States, he will rejoin the Paris Climate Agreement and will further convene a “Climate World Summit to engage directly with the leaders of the world’s major greenhouse gas emitters to convince them to join the United States and pledge more ambitious national commitments than they have in the past. “
We have access to low-cost energy in the United States,” Scalise said. It’s not only helping our manufacturing sector, it’s rebuilding our middle class. You know, all these people, the hard-working families in these states that you’ve talked about, they have high incomes. Their wages were going up before COVID, and we’re going back to those days.”
The Biden campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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