House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Saturday (Jan. 23) that the policies enacted during the first week of the Biden administration put “America last” and “China first.
The Biden Administration signed a total of 17 executive orders last week. These include orders to return to the Paris climate agreement, rejoin the WHO and suspend the Keystone XL oil pipeline project. McCarthy has issued numerous denunciations of the policies in question.
“Look at the first week of this administration,” McCarthy told U.S. media outlet Fox, “It’s Russia, China (Communist Party), our adversaries, that benefit, not the American people.”
He then said Biden had put “America last” and was “putting China first right now.
McCarthy said the suspension of the Keystone XL pipeline project cuts union jobs “and hurts our biggest ally in Canada,” while the Paris climate agreement “can only benefit China.
“We’ve reduced emissions more than any one country,” he said, “and you can add up all of Europe.”
The Paris climate agreement, signed in 2015, requires participating countries to cut industrial gas emissions and help developing countries such as China and India complete costly energy transitions. The major developed countries have pledged to contribute $100 billion a year to this agreement by 2020. The Trump administration denounced the plan for providing too much money to the outside world and announced its withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.
McCarthy later added that Biden also launched a “campaign to not create new American jobs”.
McCarthy: “Remember what he (Biden) said less than a week ago about unity? None of these actions are happening.”
“Let’s not talk about giving 11 million illegal immigrants new citizenship,” he claimed, “What about the 10.7 million Americans who need jobs?”
Earlier Wednesday, Biden signed an executive order suspending work on the wall at the southern border while the administration examines whether funds for its construction can be reallocated. Meanwhile, at least 9,000 Honduran migrants are making their way to the U.S.-Mexico border.
“This is only going to expand (the immigration problem),” McCarthy warned, “and now they believe this new president is welcoming him, and that’s exactly what he’s doing – stop building the wall and let them come because he’s going to provide them with citizenship, not jobs for the more than 10 million Americans who are out of work .”
A Biden administration spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment on McCarthy’s claims.
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