Senator John Kennedy, R-La., Warned on Tuesday that President Biden’s executive orders related to the industrial energy sector and immigration will be damaging both to the nation and, in the first case, to his home state.
Kennedy told Fox News Primetime presenter Trey Gowdy that a third of the Pelican State’s GDP comes from the oil and gas industry.
“[The green energy orders] are immeasurably foolish, “he said.” They’ll gut Louisiana like a fish. Your war on oil and gas will affect America. This will destroy our energy independence.
“This is President Biden’s new energy policy: ‘We are not going to produce our own oil. Instead, we are going to buy oil from countries that hate us, so that they have more money to buy weapons to try to kill us. ‘
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“It’s immeasurable nonsense,” continued Kennedy. “Most Americans support an energy policy with all of the above: oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, geothermal, hydrogen. But they also understand that we cannot manage the greatest economy in human history without oil and gas.”
Kennedy noted that Democrats like Biden have turned green energy and “climate change” into a religion, and the president is “absorbing everything like a Hoover Deluxe”.
Discussing immigration, Kennedy said it is obvious that Biden is trying to insinuate himself into his party’s far left.
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“I think President Biden decided to adhere to the congresswoman’s decrees [Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez, who loves at the altar of open borders, and I think it’s a big mistake, and I don’t think the American people are going to support that, “he said.
“Unless you have a sluggard’s IQ, you know the difference between legal and illegal immigration … Examining people at the border, as every country does, is not racist, it is prudent, it is how we apply our immigration laws.”