Current and former Biden top climate officials said the vast majority of the summer's incentive-laden $375 billion climate-and-health spending package - by far the biggest law passed by Congress to fight global warming - was crafted in a way that will make it hard and unpalatable for future Republican Congresses or presidents to reverse it.
If Republicans grab control of Congress, they won't have a veto-proof majority, and even if a Republican takes over the White House in the next few years the tax credits will be in place and spur industry, said Samantha Gross, head of climate and energy studies at the centrist Brookings Institution.
But McCarthy is saying, wait, there's more. She said that upcoming but not yet announced carbon pollution regulations and advances by private industries, states and cities will allow the United States to achieve and even exceed that goal, something outside experts are far more skeptical about. Republicans support many of the tax credits approved under the climate law. But they complain Biden is moving too fast to replace gas-engine cars with electric vehicles and say he hasn't done enough to counter China's influence in the renewable energy supply chain.
A permanent unwinnable crisis is the best way to consolidate power.
What a loser