All posts tagged "Inflation Reduction Act"

U.S. farmers who are desperately awaiting congressionally appropriated funds to pay their bills have been told by the Trump administration that they first need to remove "diversity aspects or make other revisions to better align" their clean energy projects "with President Donald Trump’s agenda."

A new report in The Washington Post said farmers received the confusing demand in a letter from the Agriculture Department last week urging farmers to make the changes in exchange for quicker payments.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins wrote that "the department was issuing a course correction after the Inflation Reduction Act, President Joe Biden’s signature climate and health-care law, delivered more bureaucracy than benefits for rural families," according to the Post....

Donald Trump was one of the biggest spending presidents of all time, and he helped cause the current inflation numbers, according to a former official from his administration on Wednesday.

Former Homeland Security official Miles Taylor, who has claimed his home was targeted by a break-in shortly after he published a scathing "Anonymous" op-ed about Trump's presidency, Wednesday evening appeared on MSNBC's The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle. He was asked about the revisionist history of Trump and the GOP.

After discussing revisionist history associated with Jan. 6, Taylor add that there was "a lot of revisionist history about what happened" under Trump, "including extraordinary levels of federal spending that happened under Donald Trump that drove inflation." ...

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH) is being called a hypocrite for taking credit for the results of Joe Biden's Inflation Reduction Act, which Jordan voted against.

Jordan, a frequent defender of Donald Trump who was recently accused of causing "real harm to the American people" in a letter by an ethics group, has been a staunch opponent of Biden, and has co-led the push to investigate the president for potential impeachable offenses.

But on Friday, Jordan appeared to celebrate Biden's major legislative comment, according to his social media followers....

WASHINGTON – Maxwell Frost has not been shy about criticizing Joe Biden’s administration – from climate change to border policy to Israel’s war in Gaza.

But the nation’s first Gen Z congressman has nevertheless seen his profile inside the Democratic Party rise. And despite Frost’s concerns, the 27-year-old Floridian is becoming an increasingly essential surrogate for the 81-year-old Biden.

To Frost, that push and pull is part of any relationship, and he doesn’t know why it should be any different in politics. ...

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Making homes more efficient and more electric is critical to combating climate change. But the undertaking can be expensive and beyond the financial reach of many families.

Help, however, is on the way....