Washington, D.C. – Led by Chuck Schumer and Bernie Sanders, Senate Democrats are on a mission to destroy American prosperity. Nowhere is that mission clearer than in the Senate Democrats’ anti-energy agenda, whose latest victim is the Keystone XL Pipeline project. President Joe Biden has worked nonstop to destroy this much-needed pipeline project, which would have created more than 11,000 good-paying jobs. Thanks to Biden and Senate Democrats who want to risk America’s energy independence, the developer of the Keystone XL Pipeline project announced yesterday that the project cannot move forward.
Here’s how Joe Biden’s and Senate Democrats’ anti-energy agenda will hurt American families, communities, and job creators:
- 11,000 jobs eliminated, including 8,000 union jobs.
- Blue collar workers lost $1.6 billion in gross wages.
- Local small businesses lost $3,000 a month in revenue.
- Local schools lost tens of thousands of dollars in tax revenue.
- Local towns lost $1 million dollars a month in economic growth.
Killing the Keystone XL Pipeline puts the Biden Administration and Senate Democrats in an unusual predicament – and leaves many Americans with questions as prices at the pump continue to rise:
- Is the reason Democrats refuse to invest in pipelines like Keystone because they do not consider it to be infrastructure?
- Why are Senate Democrats ignoring Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Climate Envoy John Kerry – who each contend that pipelines are “the best way to go,” and good for the environment?
The bottom line: Senate Democrats’ anti-energy agenda permanently killed thousands of jobs and billions in income for hard-working Americans.
Statement from NRSC Chairman Rick Scott: “It turns out that promoting policies that discourage investments in America’s booming energy sector leads to companies pulling their investments from the United States. The only people this is a surprise for are anti-energy Senate Democrats and Joe Biden who – despite pledging to modernize America’s infrastructure – are cheering the demise of the Keystone XL Pipeline. The price of everyday items is on the rise thanks to the Democrats’ radical, tax-and-spend agenda, and they don’t even care that 11,000 people just lost their jobs and their paychecks. Progressives like Bernie Sanders are completely in control of the Democrats’ agenda, and hardworking Americans are suffering the consequences.”
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