President Joe Biden, who swore to protect his country from all enemies foreign and domestic, now wants to make it less safe to satisfy his party’s green extremists.
House Republicans are trying to pass a law to thwart him, but it’s hard to see how current law alows this madness.
At issue: The administration’s proposed rule to force companies doing business with the Pentagon to bend the knee to climate fanatics by revealing their emissions totals and setting “science-based” carbon-reduction goals — i.e., impossible, anti-science standards meant to choke off all emissions.
These standards — no shock — come from an activist network embracing the deadly green-puritan line: population control, hard limits on consumption, wealth redistribution.
And the carbon plans from aspiring contractors would be evaluated by scientists from the same toxic pool.
Don’t capitulate? Your firm gets blackballed.
Biden wants to hand an effective veto over national security to a cadre of neo-Marxist wackjobs.
This would force the Defense Department to drop contractors with actual expertise in favor of ones chasing green trends, and likely drive up costs, too.
It would also worsen the armed forces’ crisis-level backlog of weapons — when the nation is, for example, already unable to rapidly produce enough artillery ammunition to replace what it’s given Ukraine.
US military superiority, on which American power and safety rest, is pretty theoretical if we can’t refill arms stockpiles.
And if we can’t make enough materiel for ourselves, we can’t make enough to help Ukraine or bolster Taiwan.
Yet catering to climate warriors matters more than checking Russia and China?
Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) seeks to ban this green madness with his proposed “Missions not Emissions Act.”
That’s a start, but the bill is almost certainly DOA in the Democrat-controlled Senate, so a court challenge looks to be in order.
After all: What statute empowers Biden to demand such carbon accountability? Especially at clear risk to national security?
It’s certainly nothing Congress ever envisioned in passing laws like the Clean Air Act.
Of course, Biden is routinely ignoring and end-running the need for legal authority, from his private-sector COVID vaccine mandate to his student-loan-forgiveness giveaway to the drive to ban gas stoves.
The Supreme Court’s steadily slapped many of these outrages, but the Biden team keeps at it.
And plenty of federal agencies grossly exceed their legal authority to impose policies that Democrats want but can’t pass into law.
It’s a pretty obscene approach to governing for a party that keeps insisting it’s the opposition that’s putting the nation’s democracy at risk.