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Focus On State Of the Union Address:
2024 State of the Union
https://www.whitehouse.gov/state-of-the-union-2024/
AL.com: Archibald: How Katie Britt, Alabama's so-called 'reasonable' senator, lost herself and much more
Comment: Alabama Senator Katie Britt gave Republican rebuttal to Biden's State of the Union address. She received very poor reviews on her speech.
Anti-sex trafficking advocate accuses GOP Sen. Katie Britt of distorting her story
Sen. Katie Britt has told her misleading anecdote about sex trafficking multiple times
Focus On Biden-Harris Administration Accomplishments:
Investopedia: Biden on Track To Do Something No Other President Achieved
https://www.investopedia.com/jobs-by-president-biden-record-8716774
Comment: "Joe Biden is on the verge of making history: If job creation continues on its current trajectory through January, he will be the first president under whom the economy added jobs every month he was in office."
The Hill: The good news no one is talking about this election season
https://thehill.com/opinion/energy-environment/4953970-clean-energy-biden-climate-election/
Comment: "[T]there is a good news, and it deserves much more attention. The solution to climate change is to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy; thanks to the Biden administration and the Inflation Reduction Act, clean energy is putting down deep roots in the economy."
"The Department of Energy has 17 national laboratories and 40,000 scientists working on America’s energy future. Granholm calls it 'the solutions department.'
This year, clean-energy technologies will generate pollution-free electricity equivalent to 30 Hoover Dams.
Since President Biden took office, 4 million electric vehicles have been added to the nation’s fleet. They now make up 10 percent of the vehicle market. Nearly 200,000 publicly available vehicle charging stations have been deployed, with 1,000 more added weekly.
The United States let China corner the electric vehicle and energy-storage batteries market, but America is taking it back. Some 450 battery assembly plans are opening in the U.S.
Air conditioners save lives during heat waves but contribute to climate change when fossil fuels generate their electricity. Now, heat pumps are outselling conventional cooling and heating systems in America. They can reduce energy use by 50 percent or more.
Advanced nuclear power can help meet the needs of energy-hungry data farms for artificial intelligence and crypto mining. The lack of permanent storage for radioactive wastes has been a longstanding barrier to nuclear energy, but the Energy Department is working to solve the problem with 'consent-based siting' of storage.
There are now 900 manufacturing plants in America’s clean energy industries. Sixty percent are located in Republican-led states and congressional districts. The Department of Energy is funding some of them in coal communities."
"In August, the Energy Department reported the clean-energy sector created 142,000 new jobs last year, more than half of all new energy jobs. The growth rate was twice that of the overall economy. All 50 states and the District of Columbia benefited."
The IRS wants to end another major tax loophole for the wealthy and raise $50 billion in the process
https://apnews.com/article/irs-treasury-tax-audit-income-7c10474b3129c11d28a3e6a6cb245743
Comment: Biden-Harris Administration's emphasis on making the wealthy pay their fair share of taxes.
POLITICO: Biden's got a plan to protect science from Trump
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/27/biden-plan-protect-science-trump-00160001