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August 17, 2022 – 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm (ET)
President Joe Biden signed Democrats’ landmark climate change and health care bill into law on Tuesday, delivering what he has called the “final piece” of his pared-down domestic agenda, as he aims to boost his party’s standing with voters less than three months before the midterm elections.
The legislation includes the most substantial federal investment in history to fight climate change — some $375 billion over the decade — and would cap prescription drug costs at $2,000 out-of-pocket annually for Medicare recipients. It also would help an estimated 13 million Americans pay for health care insurance by extending subsidies provided during the coronavirus pandemic.
The measure is paid for by new taxes on large companies and stepped-up IRS enforcement of wealthy individuals and entities, with additional funds going to reduce the federal deficit.
Liz Cheney is considering a presidential run to stop Trump after losing her House seat
Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney is laying out her future political plans, including a possible run against Donald Trump in 2024, after conceding defeat in the primary election for her House seat. Her loss on Tuesday followed unyielding criticism since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol of the former president and his efforts to subvert the 2020 election.
“This primary election is over, but now the real work begins,” Cheney said in her concession speech Tuesday night, noting that she had called opponent Harriet Hageman to congratulate her.
Cheney acknowledged in a Wednesday interview on NBC’s Today she was “thinking” about running for president in 2024.
For her 2022 House race, Cheney raised $14 million, a record for any primary in Wyoming’s history, and she spent about half of it. The vast majority of donations came from out of state, and she has built up a network she could tap into in the future. Cheney plans to transform her campaign operation into a political action committee called The Great Task, according to a filing with the Federal Election Commission.
The nonprofit arm of the Republican Accountability Project is launching ads across all the closest swing states of the 2020 presidential race.
An anti-Trump Republican group already spending millions of dollars this fall to oppose election-conspiracy candidates is now upping its investment.
In a $3 million ad buy launching Monday, the Republican Accountability Project’s nonprofit arm is setting out to remind voters in seven critical swing states of what happened Jan. 6, 2021 — a message they believe will resonate with some traditional Republican voters they hope to peel off from the Trump base in the party.
The organization’s television and digital ad campaign, shared exclusively with POLITICO, includes footage of Donald Trump supporters beating police officers at the Capitol, messages from self-identified Republicans opposing Trump and commentary from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the ranking member of the House Jan. 6 committee, who has defied her party to spotlight Trump’s role in the Capitol attack.
PBS NewsHour – August 21, 2022 (10:55)
The climate legislation President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday became law without the approval of a single Republican in Congress — but it’s still poised to deliver major gains to the GOP-led states whose governors hate the bill.
Renewable energy has helped add jobs, lower electricity costs and stave off blackouts in many red states like Texas, Nebraska and Oklahoma thanks to the Obama-era renewable energy policies that launched a wind and solar boom more than a decade ago. But that has not stopped Republican governors from attacking Biden’s bill, even as their states stand to reap financial incentives for wind and solar and benefit from the legislation’s new credits for carbon capture, clean hydrogen, advanced nuclear and energy storage.
Take Oklahoma, for example. Gov. Kevin Stitt signed on to an Aug. 4 statement by 22 of the nation’s 30 Republican governors deriding the bill as a “reckless tax and spending spree.”
