Texas Governor Orders Agencies to Sue Biden Administration for Climate Actions That ‘Kill Jobs’
Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbott on Thursday vowed to oppose what he called the Biden administration’s bid to destroy jobs with its volley of actions targeting the oil and gas industry.
Abbott signed an executive order during a press conference in Odessa on Thursday, which directed all state agencies to sue the Biden administration for any federal actions that threaten the Lone Star state’s energy sector.
“Texas is going to protect the oil and gas industry from any type of hostile attack launched from Washington D.C.,” Abbott said. “President Biden’s embrace of the green new deal is a job killer in Texas. It also takes a wrecking ball to the energy independence that Texas has been able to provide to the United States of America and Texas is not going to stand idly by and watch the Biden administration kill jobs in Midland, in Odessa or any other place across the entire
White House Aides Defend Biden’s Bevy of Executive Orders Amid Mounting Criticism
President Joe Biden and aides on Thursday pushed back against growing criticism of the president’s heavy reliance on executive orders in his first days in office, after The New York Times ran an op-ed arguing “this is no way to make law” and Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) suggested Biden was acting like a “dictator.”
Biden, in just over a week, has already signed more than three dozen executive orders and directives aimed at addressing the pandemic and a spate of other issues including environmental regulations and immigration policies. He has also sought to use the orders to erase foundational policy initiatives by former President Donald Trump, such as halting the construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and reversing a Trump-era Pentagon policy that largely barred transgender people from serving in the military.
The United States is currently in the throes of an incredible scenario, a slippery slope that is totally unexpected and makes scant sense. Actually, unless you have peanuts for brains, it would make sense to live in such a way that we would live cooperatively. But that’s not what is happening.
The January 6 attacks on the Congressional Electoral College proceedings were beyond ridiculous. Incredibly, it is slowly coming out that the mobs were actually targeting members of Congress for the purpose of killing them!
Vice President Mike Pence would have been a casualty if they had been able to find him, and Nancy Pelosi was also a target. Five people were ultimately killed during the melees, and it is a miracle that more people were not killed.
Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has blocked a quick impeachment trial for President Donald Trump but has not ruled out voting to convict him.
A spokesman for Mr McConnell said the leading Republican had informed Democrats that he would block their effort to quickly call the chamber back into an emergency session to put Mr Trump on trial.
The House of Representatives voted 232-197 to impeach Mr Trump, and Mr McConnell’s move means the Senate trial is all but certain to be delayed until after Joe Biden’s inauguration as president on January 20.
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Yet in a letter to his Republican colleagues, Mr McConnell acknowledged he had not made up his mind about whether Mr Trump should be convicted of the House’s charge that he incited insurrection by exhorting supporters who violently attacked the Capitol last week, resulting in five deaths and a disruption of Congress.