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On the recordNovember 14, 2023
Since President Biden took office, the American worker has suffered a 3.1 percent pay cut caused in large part by this administration's obsession with all things climate change and its war on affordable energy. The dramatic increases in energy costs have translated into higher costs for everything else, including food, housing, clothing, entertainment, and travel. This administration's war on affordable, domestic energy has thus dramatically and negatively affected the very people that the DOL was created to serve--the American worker. In short, American energy independence is good for the American worker, but the converse is also true; dependence on foreign-produced energy is bad for the American worker. Yet, that is the very outcome of these wrongheaded programs such as the DOL's climate literacy training. Such training won't improve the lot of the American worker, it will hurt it. Last year, U.S. inflation-adjusted household income fell by the most in over a decade. This reduction in income is the direct result of the inflationary pressures caused by the Biden administration's energy and climate policies. These policies have also impacted our labor force participation rate, which remains low and has never fully recovered since the pandemic.…
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Harriet Hageman
Republican · Wyoming
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Nov 14, 2023

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