by Owen Klinsky
The Daily Signal
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…
Meanwhile, Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute and former Trump EPA transition team member, told the Daily Caller News Foundation Trump should reverse Biden’s 2023 executive order: “Biden created the American Climate Corps by Executive order. President Trump should roll it back the same way. It is not possible for the Climate Corps to improve the weather, and it was not authorized by Congress in the first place.”
