Biden using “special wartime powers” shows you where this guy is coming from. To over-the-hill
Biden, a 50 year product of legislating a wartime govt, wars are essential to his retro way of thinking:
<><> wars are a Rooseveltian way to boost his presidency
<><> wars are the MO to continue the flow of tax dollars to the Biden Crime Family.
Biden’s funding nine manufacturing projects with $169 million he snagged from last year’s climate bill, is being claimed under the “emergency authority of the Cold War-era Defense Production Act (DPA).”
Biden grabbed onto “war powers” to justify boosting spending for what he says is “clean energy” technology.
<><>On June 6, 2022, Biden invoked the Defense Production Act to accelerate domestic production of green energy technology.
The Biden administration was responding to growing energy costs caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The invocation came along with a 2-year tariff exemption that ends in June 2024 on solar panels from Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, and Vietnam. The technology included in Biden’s invocation included solar energy; transformers and electric grid components; heat pumps; insulation; and electrolyzers, fuel cells, and platinum group metals.
<><>On November 17, 2023, the US Department of Energy announced $169,000,000 funded by the Inflation Reduction Act for nine projects at 15 sites to accelerate US-made electric heat pump manufacturing.
REFERENCE The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (also known as the War Powers Act) “is a congressional resolution designed to limit the U.S. president’s ability to initiate or escalate military actions abroad.”
As part of our system of governmental “checks and balances,” the law aims to check the executive branch’s power when committing U.S. military forces to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress. It stipulates the president must notify Congress within 48 hours of military action and prohibits armed forces from remaining for more than 60 days.
The Constitution divides war powers between Congress and the president. Only Congress can declare war and appropriate military funding, yet the president is commander in chief of the armed forces.
Using wartime powers for this sort of thing is another abuse of power. I agree his senile old man persona is an act to avoid public accountability for his abuses. He’s not even worth the money we pay him.