Chinese President Xi Jinping and President Joe Biden (D) reportedly struck a deal to advance the cause of green energy and move away from fossil fuels. Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) blasted President Biden for the move.
According to Fox News, “The nations further pledged to ‘sufficiently accelerate renewable energy deployment in their respective economies through 2030.’”
However, China has a track record of not keeping its end of the bargain when it comes to international agreements and accords, especially in cases of green energy as they control “much of the world’s green energy supply chain.”
Sen. Scott’s press release asserted that President Biden is “risking Americans’ livelihoods based on the word of the Chinese Communist dictator,” by agreeing to this pact.
“American energy workers have suffered immensely under Joe Biden’s Green New Deal Agenda. Joe Biden proudly killed tens of thousands of American energy jobs on his first day in office,” said Sen. Scott. “Now, he’s making deals with Communist China that would wipe out even more US energy jobs and benefit Communist China’s manufacturing industry. It should scare the hell out of every American that we have a president who is willing to put American jobs on the line based on the word of China’s Communist dictator.”
He continued, “This is what you get under Democrat control and every Democrat running for Senate needs to answer if they agree with Biden making deals with Communist China. This is why it is so critical that we take back the Senate and defeat Joe Biden next year before it’s too late.”
Moreover, Scott went on to mention that Biden himself has a track record of not putting Americans first, especially when it comes to the energy sector.
“Joe Biden has been waging war on American energy since the day he took office. One of his first actions as president was to shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline, wiping out thousands of American energy jobs. And he proposed billions in new tax hikes on the fossil fuel industry. Unsurprisingly, these anti-American energy policies caused gas prices to skyrocket and made it more expensive for Americans to heat their homes,” said the Florida senator.
Sen. Scott is expected to face former U.S. Representative Debbie Mucarsel-Powell (D-FL) in his candidacy for a second term in the upper chamber.
