'We're Paying Them To Lobby Our Government': Ricketts Rails Against IRA Funding

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Sen. Pete Ricketts (R-NE) spoke with the press on Wednesday to discuss the Inflation Reduction Act.

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00:00and see his perspective on this.

00:02Well, thank you, Senator Capito, for highlighting this

00:05and showing some transparency and some sunlight on what's

00:08going on here with regard to these grants

00:10through the Inflation Reduction Act.

00:11But as you all more aptly named it,

00:13the Investment in Radical Activists Act,

00:15because that's exactly what we're doing here.

00:18When you're giving money to organizations like the Climate

00:21Justice Alliance, and they are funding the March

00:25on Washington, and they are waving the free Palestinian

00:30flags and so forth, we're paying them to lobby our government.

00:37I got to tell you, everyday Nebraskans

00:39don't think that's a good idea, that our tax dollars should

00:42go to radical organizations to lobby our own government.

00:46That's just crazy.

00:47And you're talking about the NDN collective

00:49and the things they want to do, like abolishing the military,

00:51abolishing the police, abolishing Customs and Border

00:54Protection, abolishing Immigration and Customs

00:56Enforcement.

00:58Again, everyday Americans think those organizations

01:00are important organizations.

01:01And we want to keep them to keep us safe.

01:04They are way out of step with what everyday Americans

01:07want to see.

01:08This is really, really radical stuff that they're promoting.

01:12And then we have organizations like the social and environmental

01:17entrepreneurs who are spreading climate alarmism and, again,

01:22funding left-wing groups.

01:24This is not what our tax dollars are supposed to go for.

01:27And to your point about the EPA, because all this money

01:29is going through the EPA, I was just

01:31talking to a company yesterday who said, hey, we need more

01:33help with getting permits done.

01:35We can't get permits fast enough, frankly,

01:37for some of these environmental projects, even.

01:40And it's because the money is going

01:43to fund these radical organizations,

01:45and nobody's paying attention to how many people have got work

01:48in their different regions to be able to help

01:49get these permits processed.

01:51So on the one hand, the EPA's got legitimate business.

01:53They're not getting done.

01:54On the other hand, they're funding

01:56these radical environmentalists and other sorts

01:59of organizations.

02:00And again, it just gets back to everyday Americans,

02:04that's not how they want their money spent.

02:06They want their money spent here in Washington, DC, wisely.

02:09And when you see the frustration that people have in Washington,

02:12DC, this is a prime example of why they have that frustration.

02:16So I want to, again, thank Senator Capito

02:19for highlighting this, for shining some sunshine on this,

02:23so that we can get some changes made.

02:25We are now sitting at $35 trillion in debt.

02:31We have got to get our spending under control.

02:33And spending on this kind of radical activism

02:35is not the way we should be spending our tax dollars.

02:37I'll turn it over to you.

02:38Well said.

02:39So any questions?

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