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Dusty Johnson: Great. Listen, listen, I have barely spent any time here, OK. The bottom line is, in those hearings, I asked witnesses…

On the recordApril 29, 2026
Great. Listen, listen, I have barely spent any time here, OK. The bottom line is, in those hearings, I asked witnesses: How much have we spent combating climate change? Five to six trillion dollars. Our Energy Secretary puts the number at $10 trillion and calls it, correctly, the largest malinvestment in human history. This isn't some simple resolution. This is setting up trillions of dollars of malinvestment, up to $50 trillion in testimony. So, again, we can't afford this climate alarmism. We can't cave to the Chicken Littles of the Senate. So I object.
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Dusty Johnson
Republican · South Dakota

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Addressing climate change spending during a Senate debate.

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