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From the Chair
Think back to the first months of the Biden administration. The President had laid out a hugely ambitious agenda – an agenda focused on improving the lives of American families by growing the economy from the middle out, lowering costs for families, attacking climate change and rebuilding our infrastructure to meet the challenges of the 21st century – in short, fixing a lot of the failures of the Trump administration.
The critics said he couldn’t do it with his razor-thin majorities in the House and Senate. They pronounced his agenda dead on arrival
He persisted. And he succeeded. He passed the biggest investment in America’s critical infrastructure since the 1950s. He passed the CHIPS Act, spurring the return of computer chip manufacturing to the United States. He passed the first significant gun safety law in decades. And he passed the Inflation Reduction Act – a law providing historic investments in transitioning our economy by attacking climate change, a law that lowered healthcare costs for millions of Americans, and a law that guaranteed that massive corporations wouldn’t be able to use the tax laws to avoid paying income taxes.
Last week marked the one-year anniversary of enactment of that law. To mark the occasion, your party brought together three leaders who have played pivotal roles in enacting and implementing that law: two members of Congress who represent automaking Michigan – Debbie Dingell and Haley Stevens, and Lt. Governor Garland Gilchrist who is on the front lines of putting so much of that law into effect.
All of them are committed to transforming Michigan’s economy for the future and at the same time making sure Michigan’s incomparable labor force shares in the economic gains that are being created.
On this week’s podcast: a discussion with all three on the anniversary of the IRA: what it has already accomplished, and what it will bring to Michigan in the future.
Stories We’re Following This Week
Inflation Reduction Act First Anniversary
- Biden-Harris Administration Releases Inflation Reduction Act Guidebook for Clean Energy and Climate Programs – The White House
- FACT SHEET: One Year In, President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is Driving Historic Climate Action and Investing in America to Create Good Paying Jobs and Reduce Costs – The White House
- A Year After the Passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, Key Climate Provisions of the Law Enjoy Strong Support Across the Electorate – Data for Progress
- Michigan Dem leaders tout climate, health initiatives in the Inflation Reduction Act’s first year ⋆ Michigan Advance
- The IRA turns 1. Many Democrats are already talking about the next climate law. – POLITICO
- ‘Bidenomics’ delivered a once-in-generation investment. It shows the pros and cons of policymaking – AP News
- Hot economy summer: Despite recession fears, the U.S. economy is doing just fine – The Washington Post
- New Report: Michigan #1 for Automotive Industry, EV Investment, Top 10 in Key Areas – Governor’s Office
- At CHIPS Act One-Year Anniversary, Michigan Builds on its Semiconductor Leadership – Governor’s Office
- New federal money is the start of an effort to make Great Lakes coasts more resilient – Bridge Michigan
- 5 Michigan regions compete to bring federal money for ‘tech hub’ – Detroit Free Press
Climate Change
- City empties as thousands flee wildfire closing in on capital of Canada’s Northwest Territories – AP News
- Montana youth win historical climate trial- Helena MT Independent
- How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox – The New York Times
- A Republican 2024 Climate Strategy: More Drilling, Less Clean Energy – The New York Times
GOP Culture Wars
- A Georgia school board fires a teacher for reading a book to students about gender identity – AP News
- Arkansas rejects AP African American Studies, cites Arkansas law on “prohibited topics”- Judd Legum at Popular Information
- She Just Had a Baby. Soon She’ll Start 7th Grade – Time
- Inside the campaign to cancel sex ed – Rebecca Crosby at Popular Info
- Michigan ads try to lure residents in red states on ‘human freedoms’ – Detroit News
Politics and Politicians
- Lavora Barnes MSNBC Interview w/Jen Psaki – MSNBC
- Michigan clerk faces protests after indictment in ‘false elector’ plot – Bridge Michigan
- ‘They’re Going to Shoot Someone’: Michigan Republicans Warn of Civil War at Pool Party Fundraiser for Fake Electors – The Messenger
- Muskegon fake voter applications probed in 2020, referred to FBI, Dana Nessel says – Bridge Michigan
- Indictment: Trump lies about Michigan dead voters part of ‘criminal enterprise’ – Bridge Michigan
- How Republicans overhype the findings of their Hunter Biden probe – The Washington Post
- Sweeping GOP-backed bill could radically change NC’s voting rules – WUNC
- On Trump indictments, polls tell GOP what it doesn’t want to hear- Maddow Blog
- Trump says he did ‘nothing wrong.’ Even Republicans disagree. – The Washington Post
- Jamie Raskin Promises Report On Trump Emoluments – Crooks and Liars
- Muskegon fake voter applications probed in 2020, referred to FBI, Dana Nessel says – Bridge Michigan