Top Republican accuses Biden of ‘dictatorship’ for climate pledge

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Republican Rep. Garret Graves of Louisiana is taking exception to climate envoy John Kerry’s claim that the White House can lean on executive orders to achieve the Biden administration’s aggressive new target of cutting U.S. greenhouse emissions in half by 2030.

“This is one of the most financially impactful decisions of any administration in recent history, and they are bragging we will do this unilaterally without Congress,” Graves told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “That is a dictatorship.”

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