Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Tuesday night gave an unusual rebuttal to President Biden’s State of the Union address that scolded the president for not enacting Green New Deal-like policies into law.
Tlaib, chair of the powerful progressive caucus, thumped Biden for failing to pass his Build Back Better agenda, which includes large aspects of the Green New Deal. She claimed enacting Green New Deal-like policies would increase union jobs, a goal Biden has promised to deliver.
“With the Green New Deal we rebuild our country by creating millions of unions jobs in the clean energy industry of the future,” she lamented about the stalled legislation. “We even played hardball in Congress” to pass “environmental justice,” she said while blaming Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) as “corporate-backed Democrat obstructionists” for the legislative failure. “With the majority of the Build Back Better agenda stalled, Mr. President, our work is unfinished,” she slammed Biden, noting the need to continue the “fight for environmental justice.”............To Read More....
My Take - Never in the history of America has the President have someone of his own party do a rebuttal. This is going to reverberate over time, especially when the Republicans take over.
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