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The Biden presidency is only a few days old, and already crucial constituencies within the Democrat coalition feel betrayed. President Joe Biden was supposed to be the consensus candidate for the Democrat Party establishment because voters viewed him as a mid-Atlantic moderate. The rest of the primary field collapsed behind him, and, like Pete Buttigieg, are collecting their payoffs in appointments and other political promotion.
The flurry of actions taken in the first few days of the Biden administration ripped that marketing strategy asunder. The Biden campaign had provided clear policy documents online, so, based on their own words, what has happened since the inauguration was utterly predictable, especially on energy policy and social issues.
CTV News reported Biden s cancellation of the $8 billion project will kill thousands of unionized Canadian jobs. When operational, the pipeline was expected to bring more than 800,000 barrels of crude oil a day from the oil-rich Canadian province of Alberta to refineries in the Gulf Coast states.
The network also reported the Alberta government has retained legal counsel in both countries to give advice on seeking compensation.
Meanwhile, Fox News reports Republican senators from several western states are denouncing Biden s pipeline order, saying they will introduce legislation in an effort to repeal Biden s order. The group includes Sens. Steve Daines (R-MT), John Barrasso (R-WY), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Jim Risch (R-ID), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), James Inhofe (R-OK) and Jim Hoeven (R-ND)