Michael Bastasch on April 30, 2019
- Top Democrats Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer made it clear to President Donald Trump they will use infrastructure to advance their climate change agenda.
- Their letter to Trump makes no mentions of roads, bridges or highways, but does mention climate change and “clean” energy.
- Democrats have said in the past they want to turn an infrastructure bill into a “green energy bill.”
House Majority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer sent a letter to President Donald Trump detailing their demands on infrastructure spending.
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Pelosi and Schumer will meet Tuesday with Trump to discuss a potential infrastructure package. The Democrats made it clear, however, they plan to use infrastructure spending to advance their climate change agenda.
“To truly be a gamechanger for the American people, we should go beyond transportation and into broadband, water, energy, schools, housing and other initiatives,” Pelosi and Schumer wrote in a letter sent Monday.
“We must also invest in resiliency and risk mitigation of our current infrastructure to deal with climate change,” the two Democrats wrote to Trump.
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Trump reportedly wants $2 trillion to beef up U.S. infrastructure, including bridges, highways and roads, but the Democrats’ letter makes clear their priorities are different from the president’s.
In fact, the letter does not contain any mention of roads, bridges or highways, but instead urges Trump to “go beyond transportation” and include spending for climate change, housing initiatives, public health and “clean energy.”
Conservatives oppose Democrats’ demands for infrastructure spending, saying it would likely mean higher gas taxes that would be diverted from beefing up transportation infrastructure.
“Trump and Republicans in Congress would like improved roads,” Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, said in a statement. “The Democrats want Trump to endorse higher taxes so Democrats could, once again, spend on everything except roads.”
“Every time Republicans have foolishly given Democrats money promised to roads — the tax dollars are found far away from roads and in the pockets of Democrat special interests,” Norquist said.
Schumer asked Trump in December to include a slew of climate concessions in any infrastructure plan, including permanent tax subsidies for green energy and electric vehicle tax credits permanent, more funding into green tech and hardening infrastructure against extreme weather.
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Schumer wants to make climate change a top issue in the 2020 elections. It’s his counter to the Green New Deal’s botched rollout. Schumer wants to put Republicans on the defensive on climate change, an issue that’s traditionally not a top priority to voters.
The Green New Deal was introduced by New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, both Democrats, in February. The Green New Deal calls for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas emissions in 10 years and vastly expanding the welfare state.
Markey tried to clear up some of the confusion over what’s actually in the Green New Deal, but in a recent interview with Vox the Massachusetts lawmaker outlined what Democrats had planned for infrastructure.
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“We’ve also made it quite clear that if there is an infrastructure bill, we’re going to make it a green energy bill,” Markey said. “We’re going to be submitting amendments that ensure that bill has aggressive renewable energy resource and energy efficiency standards, and that there are higher and stronger standards for federal renewable energy procurement.”
“The federal government plays a big role, the Defense Department plays a big role, and they should be purchasing much higher percentages of electricity from renewable sources,” Markey continued.
Pelosi requested Tuesday’s meeting with Trump, according to Axios. It’s unclear if any infrastructure deal can be hashed out in the near-term.
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Trump’s 2020 budget proposal calls for $200 billion in spending to leverage massive infrastructure build-up. The budget plan also includes targeted spending on rural road-building and bridges.
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That is why you can not trust the Democrats to do the right thing about anything. They want to siege the initiative to turn it around to their agenda. President Trump should run from any agreement with these two evil and corrupt people (Pelosi and Schumer).
That is why you can not trust the Democrats to do the right thing about anything. They want to siege the initiative to turn it around to their agenda. President Trump should run from any agreement with these two evil and corrupt people (Pelosi and Schumer).
Such a move would full demonstrate how faithless the democrats are. And it would be an invitation for a VETO.
just another example of thevFAILURE of the Democrats to care about our country ABOVE THEIR HORRIBLE chance to work with President Trump HONORABLY
just another example of thevFAILURE of the Democrats to care about our country ABOVE THEIR HORRIBLE chance to work with President Trump HONORABLY
Pelosi, and Schumer are from California. That’s why California’s infrastructures are so bad. They spend the money for infrastructure on things that don’t work like a bullet train to failed green energy.
California it’s time we stand up, reclaim our State and vote out all the Democrats and rebuild California for the people not the politicians.
Pelosi, and Schumer are from California. That’s why California’s infrastructures are so bad. They spend the money for infrastructure on things that don’t work like a bullet train to failed green energy.
California it’s time we stand up, reclaim our State and vote out all the Democrats and rebuild California for the people not the politicians.
If they add climate control VETO the bill
Well the Right in Europe is not dormant. Of course the left have a hegemony because they have warped peoples’ mind around so many things but as we say in this country: IZ-ZEJT DEJJEM JITLA’ F’WICC L-ILMA (Oil will always make it to the surface of the water) idiomatic for truth will always out. A female just unsuccessfully aborted and out of womb asked her mother: So you have a right to abort me because it is your body. Well am just a fem as much as you are, my body is as much mine as you think yours is yours and I have as much right to live as you think you have right to murder me. Or, are some of us dems and fems more equal than others?
Well the Right in Europe is not dormant. Of course the left have a hegemony because they have warped peoples’ mind around so many things but as we say in this country: IZ-ZEJT DEJJEM JITLA’ F’WICC L-ILMA (Oil will always make it to the surface of the water) idiomatic for truth will always out. A female just unsuccessfully aborted and out of womb asked her mother: So you have a right to abort me because it is your body. Well am just a fem as much as you are, my body is as much mine as you think yours is yours and I have as much right to live as you think you have right to murder me. Or, are some of us dems and fems more equal than others?
Well the Right in Europe is not dormant. Of course the left have a hegemony because they have warped peoples’ mind around so many things but as we say in this country: IZ-ZEJT DEJJEM JITLA’ F’WICC L-ILMA (Oil will always make it to the surface of the water) idiomatic for truth will always out. A female just unsuccessfully aborted and out of womb asked her mother: So you have a right to abort me because it is your body. Well am just a fem as much as you are, my body is as much mine as you think yours is yours and I have as much right to live as you think you have right to murder me. Or, are some of us dems and fems more equal than others?
Wait until 2020, things cannot get any worse! Just wonder how the voting population will look at the Democratic Bill and see that for a lot of money, not much could be accomplished. Is it any wonder that Governments fail and businesses are successful? In a business, you don’t get people working at CROSS PURPOSES and gumming up the works. I will be interesting to see what happens in Europe with all the wins by the Nationalists. Globalists are getting shown the door and the same thing should be happening here too. Anybody that votes Democratic in 2020 should have their head examined.
Wait until 2020, things cannot get any worse! Just wonder how the voting population will look at the Democratic Bill and see that for a lot of money, not much could be accomplished. Is it any wonder that Governments fail and businesses are successful? In a business, you don’t get people working at CROSS PURPOSES and gumming up the works. I will be interesting to see what happens in Europe with all the wins by the Nationalists. Globalists are getting shown the door and the same thing should be happening here too. Anybody that votes Democratic in 2020 should have their head examined.
Can anyone spell, VETO?
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Now is the time for President Trump to stand tall and become the explainer in Chief, he must articulate to the public the importance of VETOING this bill and demanding that Congress pass a spending bill that will build and repair roads, highways, bridges and other infrastructure that will put American workers back to work and improve our economy even more that we have seen since Trump became President.
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We do not need this shell game that fancy nancy and upchuck schumer are attempting to play on the American citizens.
Can anyone spell, VETO?
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Now is the time for President Trump to stand tall and become the explainer in Chief, he must articulate to the public the importance of VETOING this bill and demanding that Congress pass a spending bill that will build and repair roads, highways, bridges and other infrastructure that will put American workers back to work and improve our economy even more that we have seen since Trump became President.
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We do not need this shell game that fancy nancy and upchuck schumer are attempting to play on the American citizens.
Can anyone spell, VETO?
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Now is the time for President Trump to stand tall and become the explainer in Chief, he must articulate to the public the importance of VETOING this bill and demanding that Congress pass a spending bill that will build and repair roads, highways, bridges and other infrastructure that will put American workers back to work and improve our economy even more that we have seen since Trump became President.
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We do not need this shell game that fancy nancy and upchuck schumer are attempting to play on the American citizens.
We truly need to eliminate the ability to add riders to bills. They can turn a good bill into so much pork that the bill has to be vetoed for the good of the country. It’s nice to know that the democrats are still determined to get their way no matter how much the country has to suffer for it.
What would America look like if Washington just limited it’s efforts to following the US Constitution and nothing more? I’m betting that the cost of government would shrink, people could go about their business, and happiness would prevail. Those hoping to get nice, fat, handouts would concentrate on making their own lives customized to their personal desires w/o interference from DC. Sounds like Nirvana to me.
What would America look like if Washington just limited it’s efforts to following the US Constitution and nothing more? I’m betting that the cost of government would shrink, people could go about their business, and happiness would prevail. Those hoping to get nice, fat, handouts would concentrate on making their own lives customized to their personal desires w/o interference from DC. Sounds like Nirvana to me.
What would America look like if Washington just limited it’s efforts to following the US Constitution and nothing more? I’m betting that the cost of government would shrink, people could go about their business, and happiness would prevail. Those hoping to get nice, fat, handouts would concentrate on making their own lives customized to their personal desires w/o interference from DC. Sounds like Nirvana to me.
The Democrat Party is now, openly, the Slave masters that we always knew they were. Time to eliminate the Democrats as a Party. No more Slave Plantation!