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Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

Exxon-Influenced Senators Carved Climate Out of Infrastructure Almost Entirely

Author:     Sharon Zhang
Source:     truthout
Publication Date:     30 July 2021
 Link: Exxon-Influenced Senators Carved Climate Out of Infrastructure Almost Entirely
Stephan:   Yet another story of Congressional corruption. The United States has reached a level of corruption, in both political parties, that simply boggles the mind. Worse, as this and the previous story make clear, when it comes to how Congress operates greed always trumps national wellbeing. Everything is a grift
Senators Rob Portman and Kyrsten Sinema answer questions from members of the press during a news conference after a procedural vote for the bipartisan infrastructure framework at Dirksen Senate Office Building on July 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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The final negotiations over the infrastructure bill have ground funding down to a paltry $550 billion, from what began as a $2.25 trillion proposal from President Joe Biden.

The bipartisan group of senators overseeing the negotiations cut about $29 billion in new spending from the previous draft, eliminating $20 billion of what little climate spending was left in the bill, E&E News reported.

Compared to the previous draft of the bill announced in June, the latest and final draft of the bill removes $10 billion from public transit spending and $5 billion from electric school bus funding. It also effectively cut electric vehicle charging infrastructure in half from the previous draft from $15 billion to $7.5 billion.

The cuts are yet another instance of drastic reductions that the bipartisan group has repeatedly made to climate provisions from Biden’s original proposal. Electric vehicle […]

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