WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. — WEST COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — President Joe Biden checkedout South Carolina on Thursday to make the argument that financial steps he pressed through Congress inspiteof stiff Republican opposition are assisting to keep things humming in the deep red state — and in others that voted for Donald Trump in2020
Ahead of Biden’s goto to a state that he lost by almost 12 portion points in 2020, White House authorities stated that if Republicans had their method, South Carolina, like lotsof other Republican-controlled states, would have lost out on billions of dollars in financialinvestments and thousands of tasks.
Biden is utilizing his goto to display a brand-new tidy energy production collaboration inbetween solar company Enphase Energy and maker Flex Ltd. that is forecasted to produce 600 tasks in the state and 1,200 more throughout the nation.
Enphase, which is making a $60 million financialinvestment to open up 6 brand-new production lines, consistingof 2 in South Carolina, is benefitting from tax rewards consistedof in Biden’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act that passed last August.
The White House on Wednesday castigated Republicans for ballot versus the legislation and subsequent efforts to claw back tax rewards consistedof in the expense.
“Republicans in Congress, consistingof every Republican representative from South Carolina, desire to threaten these financialinvestments, tasks and financial chances by rescinding — reversing the Inflation Reduction Act, which really assists the American individuals,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stated. “But as the president stated in his veryfirst inauguration, he’s the president for all Americans. It doesn’t matter if you’re in a red state or a blue state.”
Republican Rep. Joe Wilson, who represents an location that will advantage from Enphase’s brand-new financialinvestment, took to Twitter after the law was authorized on a party-line vote to state it passed to “the hinderance of American households,” calling it a “waste” of cash. Wilson likewise voted in April to reverse the tidy energy tax credits in the legislation that incentivized the Enphase financialinvestment.
The White House likewise took note of another South Carolina Republican, Rep. Nancy Mace, congratulating the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority for winning almost $26 million to construct and repairwork tidy energy transport proje