Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell laid into President Biden for using his executive power to create the American Climate Corps, a New Deal-style jobs training program that will pay 20,000 young people to go into careers fighting climate change.
“While the administration works overtime to freeze sensible development like energy pipelines, its latest initiative would essentially set up a taxpayer-funded pipeline for turning climate activists into climate bureaucrats,” the Kentucky Republican said in a floor speech Thursday.
“We’re opening up pathways to good-paying careers, lifetimes of being involved in the work of making our communities more fair, more sustainable, more resilient,” White House climate adviser Ali Zaidi told reporters this week. Mr. McConnell suggested the program was a “profoundly tone-deaf” idea to create amid high inflation and compared the program to a Potemkin village designed to deceive American taxpayers.
Eighty hires will begin next summer to “conserve national forests and grasslands, mitigate risks of wildfires in high-risk regions, and support reforestation efforts and wildfire crisis response,” AmeriCorps said.
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