26 U.S. Senators request a meeting with President Joe Biden following actions his administration has taken that targets energy workers.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, joined by 25 of his Senate colleagues, led a letter to President Biden voicing concern regarding the new administration’s executive orders and regulatory actions targeting the domestic energy sector and the thousands of jobs it supports.
Sullivan spoke to Fox News with Neil Cavuto yesterday, “It’s a policy that doesn’t make any sense. Heck of a first week for President Biden. Massive layoffs for hard-working Americans in the energy sector and then targeting energy production, one of our strengths, one of our great American strengths. That’s only going to drive up costs for families, for businesses, and it’s going to drive up imports from countries like Venezuela, Russia. It’s a policy that doesn’t make sense. We’re working hard to get the President to realize that he’s really damaging, not just the economy, but the American worker during a pandemic and a recession. It makes no sense.”
Sullivan spoke about comments recently made by the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate in the Biden Administration, John Kerry, “I think you listen to him, you listen to Gina McCarthy, it’s condescending. It’s really cavalier this idea that you need to make better choices, the secretary of energy nominee talks about jobs being sacrificed. These are really important jobs, these are the men and women in Alaska and America that built our country, energy independence. They have to pay mortgages. They have to pay tuition. There’s this fallacy that somehow a wind turbine technician has the benefits and the pay that somebody, for example, working on the North Slope does, and it’s just not the case. I’ve talked to a lot of our union leaders and the building trades, they completely reject the idea that these jobs are equivalent or that these jobs even exist. Right now, you have an administration targeting people putting them out of work when there’s no job to replace their jobs. I think it’s a huge mistake that we need to fix and the administration needs to come around and make sure they’re focused on jobs during this recession.”
The letter was also signed by Senators John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), John Kennedy (R-La.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.).
The 26 senators have requested to have a meeting with the president to discuss the issue.
