Mitch Landrieu, President Joe Biden’s senior adviser, defended the president prioritizing his climate alarmist agenda on Wednesday.
During an interview on Fox News’ “Special Report,” Landrieu claimed that extreme weather is going to “get worse before it gets better unless we take significant action.”
“I think everybody knows that we have a challenge with the consequences of extreme weather. And this is not going to go away,” he said. It’s going to get worse before it gets better unless we take significant action.”
“And I think the president basically was uttering today that he’s going to use the power that’s vested in him and the presidency to actually do what needs to be done if Congress will not act or won’t act as soon as he thinks they should,” the senior adviser continued.
Landrieu went on to say that Biden is aware of the problems Americans are facing right now and that “he works on that every day.”
“The president has been working very hard on crime and is going to talk about this extensively again for the third or fourth time in the last couple of weeks and is working on that,” he said. “The president is the president of everybody in America, and he’s the president of all the issues, and he’s got to deal with them.”
This comes days after the president said that he is considering declaring a national climate emergency to activate powers that would let him regulate fossil fuels without congressional authorization.
“The president made clear that if the Senate doesn’t act to tackle the climate crisis and strengthen our domestic clean energy industry, he will,” a White House official told the Post. “We are considering all options and no decision has been made.”
Democrats are struggling to pass the Biden administration’s climate agenda due to a lack of votes in the Senate. Lawmakers have then urged the president to take matters into his own hands before the midterm elections in November when Republicans are expected to win back control of one or both houses of Congress.
“This is an important moment. There is probably nothing more important for our nation and our world than for the United States to drive a bold, energetic transition in its energy economy from fossil fuels to renewable energy,” Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley told reporters on Monday.
