Biden’s Radical Agenda Ensures a Weaker, Poorer, More Divided America
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Mike Howell is senior adviser for executive branch relations at The Heritage Foundation. A lawyer, he previously worked in the general counsel s office at the Department of Homeland Security and, before that, for the chief oversight committees of the House and Senate.
When Joe Biden becomes president on Wednesday, he won’t waste any time in fanning the flames of division in the United States as he seeks to implement his far-left agenda.
All signals are flashing red, indicating that the incoming administration will govern in both radical poetry and radical prose.
Fossil-focused policies failed to hit brash energy goals Source: By Lesley Clark, E&E News reporter • Posted: Tuesday, January 19, 2021
President Trump exiting Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House. Tia Dufour/White House/Flickr
Donald Trump promised American energy dominance when he ran for president, offering a full-throttle embrace of coal, oil and gas and a pledge to hack away at a regulatory thicket he said hampered production.
In office, Trump took aim at Obama-era regulations, rolling back and replacing efforts to make power plants cleaner, setting time limits on environmental reviews for federal projects, bypassing deadlines to upgrade energy efficiency standards and supporting a Republican-led Congress in opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
Nov 5th, 2019 4 min read
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Deputy Director, Thomas A. Roe Institute
Nick is an economist who focuses on energy, environmental, and regulatory issues as the Herbert and Joyce Morgan fellow. German Greens Party members protest outside the U.S. Embassy against President Trump’s announcement that he will pull the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement on June 2, 2017 in Berlin. Sean Gallup / Staff / Getty Images
Key Takeaways
Global compliance with the Paris Agreement has been nothing short of abysmal.
Those who are clamoring for action on climate change are the ones who should actually be most upset with what a sham the Paris agreement is.
The president-elect addresses nation after the Electoral College vote in the 2020 presidential election
On Monday, a majority of presidential electors, 306 to 232 cast their votes for Joe Biden, formally making the 78-year-old the new president-elect of the United States.
Although Biden campaigned as a “moderate” who would unify the country, his various progressive policy proposals and numerous efforts to appease the Democratic Party’s far-left base suggest strongly that Biden could very likely end up becoming in the words of comrade Bernie Sanders the “most progressive president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt.”
What, exactly, will Joe Biden’s presidency look like? The answer to that question depends almost entirely on the outcome of the two Senate runoff elections in Georgia.