Boise (Idaho), Sep 13 (AP) President Joe Biden is promoting the use of his administration’s wartime legislation to aid in wildfire preparation during Monday’s western swing, in which he is surveying damage in California. and are meeting with fire officials in Idaho. The administration activated the Defense Production Act in early August to boost supplies from the U.S. Forest Service’s primary firehose supplier. This marks the second use of the law, when the president used it to boost the supply of a vaccine, and the administration had not previously announced it.
The use of this act helped an Oklahoma City nonprofit called Newview Oklahoma, which provided the bulk of the US Forest Service’s hoses, obtain the supplies needed to produce and ship 415 miles of firehose. Biden plans to demonstrate the move as part of his administration’s efforts to address another devastating wildfire season in the western US. He was later to travel to Sacramento, California, to survey the damage caused by the wildfires and provide commentary on the federal response.
He will conclude the day in Long Beach for an election eve event with California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, who will face a recall vote on Tuesday. Biden’s trip west is primarily aimed at garnering support for his massive $3.5 trillion spending plan, linked to extinguishing wildfires and upgrading social programs.
In a two-day visit, which includes a stop in Colorado on Tuesday, Biden is connecting the dots for Americans amid the increasing frequency of wildfires in the West as well as other extreme weather events across the country and the need to invest billions. wants. In combating climate change as well as broadening the social safety net. In dark-red Idaho, several opposing groups were taking advantage of Biden’s visit as a way of showing resistance to his administration. GOP gubernatorial candidates, an anti-vaccine organization and a far-right group were among those urging people to turn against the president.
Biden’s eleventh-hour election pitch in California comes a day before voters are asked to decide whether to recall Newsom and then replace him with Republican talk-show host Larry Elder, who is known as the leading GOP substitute. Seen as, or with any of the dozens. on the ballot papers of other candidates. The White House is trying to turn the corner after a rough month of a chaotic and violent withdrawal from Afghanistan and a rising delta COVID-19 version that the president hoped will mark a summer in which the nation will finally was freed. coronavirus.
Over the weekend, Biden acknowledged that his polling numbers have declined in recent weeks, but argued that his agenda is overly popular with Americans. He said he expected his Republican opponents to attack him instead of debating the merits of his spending plan. “You’re going to look and I get more direct attacks on me, not what I’m for,” Biden told reporters on Saturday. I am a big boy. I’ve been doing this for a long time. In addition to Republican opposition in Congress, Biden needs to clear the doubts of two leading centrist Democrats in the closely divided Senate. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kirsten Cinemas of Arizona have expressed concern about the size of the $3.5 trillion spending package.
Climate provisions in Biden’s plans include tax incentives for clean energy and electric vehicles, investments to shift the economy away from fossil fuels and toward renewable sources such as wind and solar power, and the creation of a civilian climate core. The president is due to visit Denver on Tuesday to continue his economic agenda.
A stop in Idaho, a state he lost by more than 30 percentage points last year, would offer Biden a deep-red background to argue that investing in tackling the climate crisis should be a priority across party lines. . Idaho and California have turned wildfire season into a year-long crisis. In June the Biden administration laid out a strategy to tackle the growing wildfire threat, including hiring more federal firefighters and implementing new techniques to detect and deal with fires quickly. Last month, the president approved a disaster declaration for California, providing federal aid for counties affected by the Dixie and River fires. Just before Monday’s visit he issued another disaster declaration for the state, this time aimed at the areas affected by the Caldor fire.
Biden recently traveled to New York, New Jersey and Louisiana to survey the damage caused by Hurricane Ida. He declared it a Code Red moment for the nation to act on the climate during a visit to a New York City neighborhood affected by Ida. Friends, the evidence is clear: Climate change poses a potential threat to our lives, to our economy, he said during a visit to New York. And here is the danger; It’s not going to get any better. Question: Could it be bad? We can stop it from getting worse. (AP).
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