DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, President Joe Biden’s lame-duck administration is racing to Trump-proof its green jobs program.
The Biden White House has “quietly been winding down” the American Climate Corps—a de facto environmental public works program established via a September 2023 executive order that hires and trains civilians to work on climate change projects, according to environmental media organization Grist.
The effort is a “precautionary step” to make it more difficult for the incoming Trump administration to target the 15,000 taxpayer-funded jobs propped up by the ACC, which was championed by progressive lawmakers such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.
While Biden is nominally undoing the ACC, employees of the Read more…
