Biden administration struggles to limit political damage from gas shortage Sean Sullivan
Replay Video UP NEXT President Biden has struggled this week to contain an escalating gasoline shortage in the Southeast, prompting Republicans to open a new line of attack against him on an issue that has long been fraught with political peril for the party that controls the White House. In Congress, Republicans seized on Biden’s moves to transition away from fossil fuels, suggesting it imperils the country’s energy security. On Fox News, conservative hosts have blamed the president for rising prices at the pump and long lines of cars snaking around gas stations, with one dubbing it “Biden’s gas crisis.” And in midterm battleground states where gas is running low, Republican leaders have panned Biden’s response.
It’s not lost on them that their own leader, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell
Many GOP senators, however, are keeping quiet about their concerns and would prefer to talk about other subjects, namely what they view as President Biden
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It’s possible that Cheney, who was eyeing a run for Senate in 2013 and again in 2019, was a member of the Senate GOP leadership, she wouldn’t have been deposed.
Several members of the Senate GOP leadership as well as several other prominent GOP senators expressed dismay over Cheney’s fate on Wednesday, shortly after the House fired her from the leadership ranks on a voice vote.
Rep. Liz Cheney Leaves Door Open for 2024 Presidential Run, Won’t Leave GOP
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), after she was ousted from her House Republican leadership position, said Thursday that she won’t leave the GOP and did not rule out running for president.
In an interview with “Today,” Cheney, now the former House Republican Conference chair, was asked several times about whether she wants to run for president in 2024 to prevent former President Donald Trump from winning the presidency again.
“I’m going do everything that I can both to make sure that that never happens, but also to make sure that the Republican Party gets back to substance and policy,” Cheney said, adding that she will “absolutely” again run for Wyoming’s lone House seat in 2022. Cheney, the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney, also said that she will not leave the Republican Party.
Several lawmakers have introduced bills in the last two months offering ways to structure the CCC.
Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., along with Reps. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., and Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., introduced a bill in April that aims to increase the number of conservation and restoration projects on public lands while helping disadvantaged communities adapt to climate change, and protect biodiversity and ecological resilience.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D- N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduced a separate bill called the Civilian Climate Corps for Jobs and Justice Act
that would put half the projects in to environmental justice communities, areas where racial minorities have been affected by pollution. CCC participants would be guaranteed wages of at least $15 an hour.