Mississippi Republicans love at least one project Trump now calls a ‘green new scam’ by Bobby Harrison, Mississippi Today July 7, 2024 Some of Mississippi’s top Republicans, namely Gov. Tate Reeves and U.S. Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, traveled last week to Marshall County in north Mississippi, a stone’s throw from the state line with Tennessee, to celebrate the groundbreaking for a new electric vehicle battery plant.
She said at the time that the Inflation Reduction Act “expends $370 billion to jam through Democrats’ radical Green New Deal climate agenda, including tax breaks to wealthy Americans to buy electric vehicles and kitchen appliances.” Yet, at the Marshall County ground-breaking, Hyde-Smith was front and center, smiling with shovel in hand, breaking ground on the project that was a direct result of the law that she so publicly and boldly opposed.