Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, this amendment prohibits any of the funding from being used to carry out environmental justice activities. Let me explain this to you. Environmental justice is nothing more than the synthesis of divisive racial ideology and radical environmentalism in the same package. This entire ideology is based on the notion that Federal environmental funding should be allocated based on immutable characteristics. Biden's Justice40 Initiative directs 40 percent of Federal clean energy and energy efficiency spending based on ethnicity, migrant status, and income status. How is that fair in America? I don't hear anything about the fact that poor communities are hurt the hardest by this administration's inflationary energy policy. Just last year, the Census Bureau found that 36 percent of consumers say it has been somewhat to very difficult for them to pay their usual bills in the last 7 days. That is a 25 percent increase from the prior year. I hear it in my own district. Environmental justice is just another way for this administration to funnel dollars, your tax dollars, to radical leftwing groups, including anti-Israel groups. I think that is important to note today. In December of 2023, the Biden administration announced it would award $600 million in environmental justice funding. Fifty million dollars went to the Climate Justice Alliance, which organized anti- Israel protests in the Capitol rotunda last year. What does any of that have to do with the environment?…”