White House calls Kevin McCarthy’s budget a ‘ransom note’ that would ‘give our kids asthma’ and make oil companies produce chemicals that ‘melt bones’ – with still NO sign of debt talks
- Karine Jean-Pierre destroyed the House GOP budget for cutting environmental programs
- She said it would cause ‘severe burns, damage people’s eyes’
- Also said it would ‘literally melt bones’
The White House stepped up its attacks on House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s budget on Friday as it heads for a floor vote — calling it a risk to health and environmental programs and would “damage the lungs of our poisoning children’.
It was just the latest assault on an emerging budget document that will face a major House vote next week amid a deadlock over raising the $31 trillion debt limit and House Republicans’ demands for spending cuts.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the House Budget Committee’s plan amounted to “holding our economy hostage” which she said would “kill jobs, fill our cities with smog and give our children asthma.” ‘.
She called it a “ransom note” because of the GOP’s plan to tie an increase in the statutory debt limit to government spending cuts.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the House GOP budget would “kill jobs, fill our cities with smog and give our children asthma.”
She noted that it would repeal the green energy tax credit from last year’s Inflation Reduction Act
The proposal would remove the green energy tax credit from the Inflation Reduction Act and “send thousands of jobs back to China,” she said.
“It would make it easier for oil companies to use toxic chemicals that cause severe burns, damage people’s eyes and literally melt bones,” said Jean-Pierre.
She said it would bring a “severely weakened Clean Air Act,” taking us back to times and cities across the country filled with heavy smog polluting our air and poisoning our children’s lungs.
The White House has pounded the House GOP budget before Speaker Kevin McCarthy brings it up for a vote next week
Her comments came on a day when Biden signed an executive order directing federal agencies to include “environmental justice” in their actions.
“Imagine turning your back on all those moms and dads living in pollution-poisoned cities and saying sorry to them, you’re on your own. We can’t let that happen,” Biden said.
The House GOP budget, dubbed the “Limit, Save, Grow Act,” would cut $4.5 trillion in spending while raising the debt limit by $1.5 trillion. It would limit spending increases to 1 percent per year, well below inflation.
It would also cut programs from the $740 billion IRA related to climate change, including rebates for efficient appliances, while boosting oil and gas leasing on federal lands.