Summary
President Joe Biden invoked the 1953 Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to protect 625 million acres of U.S. offshore waters from future oil and gas drilling, blocking areas along the East and West coasts, Eastern Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska’s North Bering Sea.
The move aims to prevent environmental damage and hinder Donald Trump’s plans to expand fossil fuel production upon returning to office.
Trump allies and the oil industry criticized the decision as politically motivated, while Biden emphasized bipartisan support for protecting coastal regions.
With that headline, I expected Biden to go get an old volume of the Congressional Record out of the Archives and thwap Trump on the nose with it.
Biden isn’t doing shit tho…
Like, his aides have said, Chris Clizza even admitted it.
He shuffles around and his aides handle everything.
We could tell the last few years, but it’s been a couple weeks now since people in his admin/party started admitting it. So it’s weird to still see headlines pretending like Biden is actually doing anything besides his best Ronald Reagan impression.
You just described delegation, one of the more critical leadership qualities one would hope to find in a president.
You’re not supposed to delegate everything.
If he was going to delegate literally everything then what do we need a president for exactly? Lets cancel the office and save that money.
What do you think the president does other than communicate? Speaking and writing is the entire job.
72 year old law doesn’t sound as archaic when it’s used by octogenrians. Isn’t that well within their repetuar?
PoLiTiCaLlY mOtIvAtEd
It’s only politically motivated when you use political affiliation to respond to it. “Leave it in the fucking ground already” is a scientific standpoint, not a political one. Fuck these goons.
That’s awesome, still doesn’t make up for 2024 being a record breaking and world leading amount of crude oil production.
