Ranking Member Grijalva Statement on House Passage of Republicans’ Default on America Act
Washington, D.C. – House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) today issued the following statement on House passage of Republicans’ H.R. 2811, also known as the Default on America (DOA) Act, which is a ransom note of cruel cuts that hurt working Americans and tank our economic recovery. No Democrats voted for the bill.
Within the agencies under the Committee’s jurisdiction—the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Forest Service, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration—Republicans’ drastic cuts passed in the DOA Act will weaken our ability to fight wildfires, diminish drought response and water supply, hurt tribal communities and schools, stall clean energy development, and erode climate science. CLICK HERE for a Natural Resources fact sheet on the DOA Act.
The DOA Act also includes Republicans’ H.R. 1, the Polluters Over People Act. The Polluters Over People Act is a shameless giveaway of corporate handouts for polluting industries that simultaneously guts our bedrock environmental and public health laws in the name of fast-tracking polluter projects. CLICK HERE for a fact sheet on the Polluters Over People Act.
“Since MAGA Republicans can’t govern through the regular legislative process, they’ve resorted to forcing their extreme agenda on all of us with this reckless hostage situation instead,” said Chair Grijalva. “Americans are already living under the worsening threat of the climate crisis every day—the last thing we need is a manufactured economic crisis that only makes the problem much, much worse.
“Republicans’ Default on America Act will not only put Americans directly in harm’s way from further climate change destruction, it will also stall our efforts to move into the cleaner, more affordable, and more just energy future we so desperately need. I urge my Republican colleagues to give up these dangerous, irresponsible political games, so we can get back to work passing the climate solutions Americans really need.”
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