Lawler is MIA as Trump plays political games with millions for clean energy projects at IBM and Urban Electric Power
Mike Lawler loves to brag about his ‘commitment’ to building on clean energy investments –that is, until Donald Trump comes calling.
As the Trump Administration recklessly slashes over$26 million from clean energy projects in his district and nearly $467 million in critical investments across New York State, Lawler is nowhere to be found.
Lawler’s silence is ironic considering that just last week, he penned an op-ed touting his passion for an “all-of-the-above energy approach” that “build[s] on existing clean energy investments.”
Late last year, Lawler also visited the same IBM research center that was just hit with millions in funding cuts – boasting at the time that he wouldn’t “stop working in Congress to empower our innovators.”
But now that Donald Trump has decided to gut these clean energy projects, it’s crickets from Mike Lawler.
REMINDER: After caving to Trump and voting for the Big, Ugly Bill earlier this year, Lawler admitted he was jeopardizing millions in investments and good-paying jobs in his district and begged Senate Republican leaders to “mitigate” the negative impacts of his own vote.
New York is getting whipsawed by the Trump administration’s aggressive cost-cutting strategy.
About $467 million is being cut from clean energy projects in New York as part of the Trump administration’s Wednesday announcementit would slice about $8 billion in Department of Energy grants in mostly blue states, according to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s calculations.
Hudson Valley Republican Rep. Mike Lawler is seeing over $26 million cut from his district, with a $19.7 million “methane characterization” project at IBM’s research headquarters being the biggest casualty.
The barrage of energy grant cuts comes at an awkward time for Lawler — he just published an op-ed Monday about his passion for an “all-of-the-above energy approach.”
Last year, he toured the same IBM research center that was ravaged by the recent cuts.“I won’t stop working in Congress to empower our innovators and unleash our potential so that America remains the unequivocal world leader in the 21st Century and beyond,” he said at the time.
“Posing for photo ops at local job sites and penning op-eds about investing in American energy won’t make voters forget that Mike Lawler voted to hike energy costs on hardworking New Yorkers and stayed silent as Trump slashes over $26 million from critical local energy projects,”DCCC spokesperson Riya Vashi said.
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