“She cast the deciding vote for the so-called Inflation Reduction Act that sent a lot of our resources to China.”
— JD Vance, GOP vice-presidential candidate, remarks in Eau Claire, Wis., Aug. 7
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“Kamala Harris has doubled down on this green energy scam that’s actually shipped a lot more manufacturing jobs to China.”
— Vance, remarks in Waite Park, Minn., July 28
As Vance has toured the industrial Midwest in recent weeks, one of his consistent claims is that Vice President Kamala Harris shipped jobs to China by casting the tiebreaking vote in 2022 in the Senate for the Inflation Reduction Act, a catchall bill that included $370 billion in climate and energy funding to combat climate change.
His comments in Minnesota won the approval of Donald Trump Jr., who posted on social media that Vance “destroys Kamala’s anti-American energy and manufacturing record.”
Trump’s son may be impressed by the rhetoric, but on the face of it, Vance’s claims make little sense. The IRA was designed to foster green manufacturing jobs in the United States — and the evidence shows that it’s working. What’s Vance’s case for saying that the IRA is sending “a lot of our resources” and “more manufacturing jobs” to China?
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