DeSantis tells Biden: Keep your IRA money

[Zorro]

President Joe Biden is offering one of his White House challengers hundreds of millions of dollars to spend in his state. The only problem: that opponent is refusing to take it.

The Inflation Reduction Act makes Florida eligible for some $350 million in energy efficiency incentives. But Gov. Ron DeSantis has rejected the funding and other measures, creating the most prominent blockade by any Republican governor against Biden’s economic agenda.

And there’s nothing the White House can do besides hope he changes his mind.

The rejection has the potential to create significant ripple effects, politically and economically, in the coming months. As the president and his Cabinet members go around the country boasting about the IRA, rebates for energy-efficient purchases — the majority of the funding that DeSantis has refused — have played a particularly prominent role. That’s not just because they underpin the administration’s climate agenda but because they provide direct rebates to consumers.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/climate-clash-desantis-refuses-biden-083000996.html

[viva la]

1. So let's see... Floridians are facing huge increases in homeowner insurance...

as another killer hurricane ravages the state, they will have no access to free money for more energy efficient equipment that could save them money and trouble in the future.

And yet they re-elected this clown-thug.

[jimfields33]

7. Free money? Nothing is free. That money is coming from somewhere.

[Blues Heron]

10. its free to them for the taking - they are refusing it.

everybody knows it comes from somewhere -sheesh

[lostnfound]

19. There's no free water either. It has to be evaporated, that doesn't come cheap

It’s hard work to let it all circulate the way it does, doing what it was designed to do.
That water is coming from somewhere.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. Yeah, a lot of it is coming from Florida(3rd largest population). They can't have any of it back.

But go ahead and own them libs!

[hildegaard28]

2. Give the

Money to blue states then.

[Rebl2]

13. Agreed

[Hassler]

3. Bet on Ronda Santis to take disaster relief money. Biden should

Publicly declare he's sending IRA money for disaster relief and see what Gogo Boots does.

[Cha]

4. And who suffers? Not Pres Biden..

Not defuckface(unless s he does).. but Floridians!

[ZonkerHarris]

5. a nice ad explaining how ronny is costing FL residents money will take care of that pretend problem

Pointing out that Ron will take hurricane relief money from the federal government but he won't help you with your energy bill with money from the federal government

[happy feet]

6. This!

Dems need to get the message out loud and clear.

[yonder]

9. +1.

[gratuitous]

11. Sounds complicated

How could Democrats possibly make an issue out of DeSantis' feckless governance, depriving Floridians of assistance and costing each of them hundreds of dollars a year? I mean, "There's money available to help you, but Gov. DeSantis won't let you have it" is just soooooo hard to comprehend!

[Bev54]

8. Can he give it to individual cities or counties? If not move on and give it

to another state.

[NowISeetheLight]

12. Moving Expenses

Maybe they should use the money to help liberal people escape Florida. I sure can't imagine having to live there.

[ecstatic]

14. I have a feeling dedumbass will go down in flames this week

I heard he's planning a speech about Biden's response to the coming hurricane AND the fires in Hawaii? He's going to overplay his hand and it's not going to over well. You can't play games with peoples' lives like this.

[cachukis]

15. Watching DeSantis play leader during this hurricane

makes me want to express a snarl. The dear leader starts by his team is so last leader, but his taking advantage of the best emergency management group in the world to display his prowess is sickening.
The machinery to respond to hurricanes has been developing since Andrew when Craig Fugate put in the protocols that all states, particularly in hurricane prone ones, use to bail each other out.
While the storm is a serious assault on life and infrastructure, Floridians have played this game for years.
Ian caught many of those ride it out types, in a powerful surge. But Ian struck a large population.
Nonetheless, the emergency response was palpable. DeSantis didn't know then, how powerful the system was ready to make the hurricane rescue function.
He knows now and is riding it to show how effective he is in managing rote.
He is developing a skill set that makes him even scarier.
Floridians, as a rule, have no idea what I described. Many just want to be led to the land of their own world view. Little do they know the cost of following the fecklessness of our governor.

[NCDem47]

17. Desantis will find that ONE rebuilding project...

Ride everyone’s ass to get it rebuilt in 58 seconds (which someone will do) and then leverage that for all supporters to say, “See! Look how fast he gets things done. What a leader!” He used this for Ian and the bridge.

Never waste a good crisis.

[cachukis]

22. He did that with the temporary bridge to Sanibel.

Three weeks and big fanfare. The bridge really needs a permanent repair that will take some time. Yet the wealthies have access to attend to the devastation. I've heard that food trucks are now the restaurants and some homes are being refurbished. Have not visited and would love to hear how well the island is recovering.
It is still a beautiful nature spot, I'm sure, but dropping a dime for a small population with assets to mend, sure attends to a certain mentality.
He is going to school.

[LoisB]

16. Well, hell. Send it to California, we will accept it.

[nakocal]

18. But DeSantis will be begging for hurricane relief money

when the IRA money could have fixed some infrastructure and saved the tax payer billions.

[NCDem47]

23. Oh, DSantis will take the money...

…in the cover of night with no fanfare. Then he’ll scowl about anything the Feds do. Diss Biden publicly to show his credentials to base. He’ll fake the whole thing. Florida NEEDS the funds. Everyone knows it. Biden takes the high road though. He ain’t getting in a pissing match to screw over Americans— even those that vote against him.

[FloridaBlues]

20. Look for other republican governors to do the same.

[Native]

21. Man I hate the fuckwad!