On Thursday afternoon, President Trump announced that the United States would leave the Paris Agreement, a deal that would have cost billions of dollars in taxpayer money.
Alabama Republican Party Chairman Terry Lathan made the following statement regarding President Trump’s announcement to leave the Paris Agreement:
“Today President Trump delivered on another one of his campaign promises as he pulled our nation out of the 2015 Paris Agreement. In doing so, this in no way means that we do not love our beloved country and world by stepping away from this arrangement. In fact, the Paris Agreement is voluntary with absolutely no consequences for a nation who signed the accord. It is an ineffective trillion-dollar toothless tiger that President Trump clearly recognizes is not in our best interest.”
“President Obama pledged $100 billion in taxpayer money to this proposition to ‘possibly’ lower carbon emissions a hundred years from now. He bypassed Congress on joining the agreement because he would not have had their support. American businesses and industries ultimately would be forced to spend trillions of dollars to comply with this arrangement. Those costs would be passed on to American families and result in hundreds of thousands of job losses in our nation.”
“In the end, American taxpayer money pledged to the Paris Agreement was to be distributed to other countries, including third world communist and socialist nations, so that they may come into ‘voluntary’ compliance. Therefore, it is not surprising that other nations would frown upon the decision that American money will not flow into their coffers now.”
“We can set high environmental standards to protect our world without spending trillions of American dollars on a ‘possible’ increase of 0.2 degrees Celsius that ‘may’ cause global warming by 2100. I applaud President Trump for fulfilling his campaign pledge to step back from this agreement. Pulling away from the Paris Agreement does not preclude our nation from working with world leaders on this topic. Environmental discussions, scientific studies and global warming concerns will certainly continue regardless of the United States’ decision to invest or not invest trillions of dollars in this unenforceable agreement.”
“Again, President Trump asked a simple question void of emotional rhetoric in ending our support of the Paris Agreement: Is this action in the best interest of the United States? Those who elected him in a landslide election would agree it is.”
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