Its working. But polls show Many Americans may not fully know what the Inflation Reduction Act actually is. Data released earlier this month in a Washington Post university of maryland poll show seven in ten americans had heard little or nothing about the policy. Im joined now by tim mcdonnell, climate and Energy Editor at the us politics website semafor. Great website semafor. To have you in the programme. You great to have you in the programme. You have been writing about how the Inflation Reduction Act sure the promise and limits of the government plan and pushing forward Climate Policy of stop starting with the promise, what has worked . Thank you, its a pleasure promise, what has worked . Thank you, its a pleasure to promise, what has worked . Thank you, its a pleasure to be promise, what has worked . Thank you, its a pleasure to be here. Promise, what has worked . Thank you, its a pleasure to be here. Happy its a pleasure to be here. Happy to talk about its a pleasure to be here.
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london so hope when he came into power things would change, that there would be a new era of reform. but there has been a lot of disappointment over the years, because there have been very few economic reforms and politically, dissidents are still in jail and public criticism of the government is not tolerated and we saw how the security forces reacted to some of those protests. i heard president assad say i m not no hosni mubarak and stronger from the leaders pushed from office. he used some of the same rhetoric. and blamed satellite news channels for inciting some of the unrest and blamed some of the conspirators for stoking the unrest and angering people inside of syria. he also said that there was a network of text message survey, a network of people sending text messages to incite sectarian strife. all of these are things we have heard before from the autocratic leaders who have fallen from protest. syria is a different country