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WATCH: Biden Nominee For Commerce Won’t Rule Out Gas Tax Funding Climate Change Agenda

Hank Berrien
WATCH: Biden Nominee For Commerce Won’t Rule Out Gas Tax Funding Climate Change Agenda
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On Tuesday, Rhode Island Democrat Governor Gina Raimondo, President Biden’s nominee to be Secretary of the Department of Commerce, admitted that she would not rule out raising taxes on Americans in order to fulfill the administration’s climate change agenda.

Florida Republican Senator Rick Scott asked Raimondo at her confirmation hearing, “What you’ve agreed to in the Transportation Climate Initiative, who will pay for that and how will a family making — half the families, individuals in your state make less than $32,000 a year — how will they pay for that and have you quantified it?”

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