Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) joins Meet the Press exclusively to discuss President Biden’s re-election campaign and the divide within the Democratic Party over the war in Gaza.
The IRA may not have been the silver bullet to fix climate change, but it was the most comprehensive climate change bill in history and allocates the highest funding ever for green energy. It actually provides so much funding that Canada and European countries were forced to pass similar legislation so their renewable energy companies would stay and be competitive.
Perhaps it’s laughably insufficient – but it also happens to be some of the furthest left wing legislation in the West with climate change.
Plus, Democrats also passed an infrastructure bill to address the issues you’ve accurately identified. I don’t think we’re naive enough to think that everything would be fixed in a few years from that. There’s significant lag time when you make any change.
The IRA may not have been the silver bullet to fix climate change, but it was the most comprehensive climate change bill in history and allocates the highest funding ever for green energy. It actually provides so much funding that Canada and European countries were forced to pass similar legislation so their renewable energy companies would stay and be competitive.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/why-us-inflation-reduction-act-has-rattled-europe-2023-02-01/
Perhaps it’s laughably insufficient – but it also happens to be some of the furthest left wing legislation in the West with climate change.
Plus, Democrats also passed an infrastructure bill to address the issues you’ve accurately identified. I don’t think we’re naive enough to think that everything would be fixed in a few years from that. There’s significant lag time when you make any change.