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Prior to the release of the plan and Biden’s remarks, President Trump’s re-election campaign focused on the price tag of the proposal and argued that it would negatively affect the pocketbooks of low-income Americans.
\"You would see higher energy costs, and you would see who gets hit the hardest, which is low-income families. This literally would hit low-income families the hardest because higher energy crises have a much higher burden on low-income families,\" House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., told reporters on a conference call Tuesday.
In contrast to the criticism from Trump allies within the GOP, the plan garnered praise from the United Autoworkers of America (UAW), which applauded its specific focus on the auto industry and emphasis on generating union jobs.
\"By focusing on investments in new technology, increasing demand for American-made and sourced clean vehicles; investing in our plants and our auto manufacturing facilities and creating 1 million new jobs, this all-American plan will ensure that the industry will thrive for decades to come with good paying union jobs,\" the union said in a statement.
Along with the green economy plan, the campaign also released a plan specifically focused on environmental justice and combating the disproportional impacts of climate change on communities of color.
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The campaign committed to targeting 40% of the benefits of its \"clean energy revolution\" to disadvantaged communities and will place a focus on addressing the connection between the impacts of climate change and public health, drawing on points from Biden’s plan to combat coronavirus and prepare for future global health threats.
The campaign will also focus on collecting data to inform decisions, creating a ‘Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool’ that will identify communities impacted by the effects of climate change and publish that information in annual maps identifying the communities.
As part of the plan, Biden’s campaign is committing to establish an Environmental and Climate Justice Division within the Department of Justice, and overhaul the EPA External Civil Rights Compliance Office, as part of a path to overhaul the government’s current environmental justice policy, which dates back to 1994.
Biden’s previously-released plan on climate change called for a \"federal investment of $1.7 trillion over the next ten years, leveraging additional private sector and state and local investments to total to more than $5 trillion,\" and aimed to achieve \"a 100% clean energy economy and net-zero emissions no later than 2050.\"
Biden’s initial $1.7 trillion price tag for the federal funds would be paid for by \"reversing the excesses of the Trump tax cuts for corporations, reducing incentives for tax havens, evasion, and outsourcing, ensuring corporations pay their fair share, closing other loopholes in our tax code that reward work not wealth, and ending subsidies for fossil fuels,\" according to the campaign.
The $2 trillion price tag over four years, the campaign argued, is \"what the science demands to address the climate crisis,\" but when asked specifically about how it intends to pay for the hefty price tag, the campaign declined to provide specifics, saying the full payment plan would be revealed when the full \"Build Back Better\" plan was announced in the coming weeks.
\"It will be a combination of paid-for spending through tax increases on corporations back to the 28% rate and asking the wealthiest Americans to pay their fair share, and some amount of stimulus spending, and we'll have more to say on what that looks like in the weeks ahead,\" an adviser said.
Biden’s plan released Tuesday also calls for the creation of a \"Civilian Climate Corps\" to develop scientific solutions to spur a more sustainable economy, an idea that was originally proposed by another one of the Democrat’s former primary rivals, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee.
Inslee, who made climate change the foundational issue of his presidential campaign, released a statement on Tuesday praising Biden’s new plan.
\"The next president must lead a national mobilization to defeat climate change. Joe Biden’s plan shows that he’s serious about defeating climate change, and has a roadmap to become the Climate President that America needs,\" Inslee, whose team provided input to Biden’s campaign to craft its energy policy, wrote.
At a virtual fundraiser on Monday evening, Biden spoke specifically about the sense of urgency he plans to bring on the issue of combating climate change if he unseats Trump in November.
\"2050 is a million years from now in most people. My plan is focused on taking action. Now,\" Biden said. \"God willing I win and even if I serve eight years, I want to make sure we put down such a marker that it’s impossible for the next president to turn it around.\"
ABC News' Will Steakin contributed to this report.71766318previously
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