Democrats are pulling out all the stops to get Kamala Harris over the finish line in November.
They are bending every rule in the book to make it happen.
Now Joe Biden is riding to the rescue of Kamala Harris with this sick move in swing states.
Joe Biden uses federal money to boost Kamala Harris’ chances
It’s all hands on deck for the Democrat Party to help Vice President Kamala Harris’ Presidential campaign.
Kamala cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate for the wildly misnamed Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
This $1.2 trillion bill was a slush fund for Green New Deal policies.
Now President Joe Biden is deploying some of the cash from that bill at a crucial time for Kamala.
He traveled to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce that the Biden-Harris administration was doling out $7.3 billion to dozens of rural electric cooperatives.
Biden spoke in the small town of Westby along the state’s border with Iowa.
The President claimed that it was the biggest investment in rural electrification since the New Deal in the 1930s under President Franklin Roosevelt.
Wisconsin is one of the most important swing states in this election and Kamala needs to hold down on former President Donald Trump’s margins in rural areas in the state.
Electric bills in Wisconsin have increased by 3% and the $572 million Biden gave to the Dairyland Power Cooperative is supposed to lower rates over the next decade.
Biden’s $7.5 billion Empowering Rural America (New ERA) program will send money to rural electric cooperatives in the swing states of Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona.
The states with the two most competitive Senate races in the country, Ohio and Montana, where Democrats are trying to hold are also getting money.
“Importantly, in 2021, he talked about the need for good paying jobs and opportunities in rural America and the need to address our climate crisis, and tomorrow, he will announce $7.3 billion from his Inflation Reduction Act for clean, affordable, reliable electricity,” White House Deputy Chief of Staff Natalie Quillian told reporters. “It’s the largest investment in rural electrification since FDR administration and will spur economic development and lower costs for millions of Americans. And it will create 4,500 permanent jobs and 16,000 construction jobs.”
Biden is hoping that this conveniently timed announcement can help buy Kamala some goodwill in rural areas of swing states.
Sending money to swing states to help Kamala is part of the plan
Biden’s Department of Energy announced in July that it was sending $1.7 billion to help closed or “at-risk” auto plants in eight states convert to electric vehicle production.
The swing states of Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania were among those receiving federal money to save struggling auto plants.
“This investment will create thousands of good-paying, union manufacturing jobs and retain even more— from Lansing, Michigan to Fort Valley, Georgia — by helping auto companies retool, reboot, and rehire in the same factories and communities,” Biden said at the time.
The money for this scheme came from the Inflation Reduction Act.
Joe Biden is sitting on a war chest of taxpayer money that he can deploy before Election Day to help Kamala Harris.
