Stauber Leads Letter to Pelosi and Schumer Demanding They Stop the CEPP Carbon Tax
As Democrats continue their failed Reconciliation negotiations, Stauber urges Democrat leadership to ditch this harmful carbon tax policy.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Pete Stauber (MN-08) recently led a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Leader of the Senate Chuck Schumer, demanding they listen to American middle class families, labor unions, and rural electric cooperatives by eliminating the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), or carbon tax, from reconciliation negotiations and any future consideration.
Congressman Stauber stated, "From soaring energy prices to failed supply chains, our nation is in a constant state of crisis thanks to the misguided policies of President Biden and Democrats in Congress. With a potential winter heating crisis around the corner, I urge Democrat leadership in Congress to refrain from doubling down on their failed agenda and smothering our electric grid with blanket mandates that will only exacerbate these problems and cost American families more.
Stauber continued, stating, "We need a reliable and resilient energy grid that provides low-cost energy to American families. This can only be accomplished by supporting an all-of-the-above approach, not picking winners and losers from Washington, D.C."
The CEPP is a new take on old, failed carbon tax policies and corporate welfare. It caters to the far-left and international elites by unrealistically demanding we alter our energy grid in ten years with no thought to reliability or affordability.
Ultimately, it would amount to another tax on American families at a time when they can least afford it.
Read the full letter, HERE.
Stauber was joined by 18 of his colleagues in the House in sending this letter.
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