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On the recordNovember 8, 2021
It will reduce consumer energy cost, it will invest in a clean energy economy. It will create hundreds of thousands of jobs, and it will set the United States on course to meet its new climate targets, achieving a 50 to 52 reduction in greenhouse gas emissions below 2005 levels by 2030. So, the U.S. is back.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois
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msnbc.com

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Obama discusses the benefits of the climate provisions in the Build Back Better agenda.

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