President Biden participated in a second reception this week for the Democratic National Committee in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he urged those in attendance to take climate change more seriously.
Just one day after a fundraiser in Rancho Santa Fe, California, where Biden accidentally revealed a previously unknown detail about former President Jimmy Carter’s health, he made a number of off-the-cuff comments about climate change including one about the Colorado River drying up.
“You’re not going to be able to drink out of the Colorado River,” Biden said to a crowd of about 60 people. He also likened climate change to nuclear war as a “truly existential threat” facing the country.
“Not a joke,” the president added.
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He continued: “This is serious stuff. It’s the single most dire consequence. If we don’t keep it below 1.5 degrees Celsius, not go above that, we’re going to damn our children to circumstances where we are the only, truly existential threat of nuclear war.”
In addition to climate change, Biden also referenced a potential succession by Eastern Oregon counties — which Biden mistakenly called “Western Oregon” — to Idaho and ongoing budget negotiations with congressional Republicans.
“I met with the speaker of the house, he’s not a bad guy, he’s a decent guy,” Biden said of Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., amid stalled budget negotiations.
“And he sat with me and said what are we going to do? Said I’ll tell you what, I’ll my submit my budget in detail on the ninth of March. You submit yours and we’ll negotiate,” the president added.
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Republicans are “telling me that unless I vote the way they want, I go along with their budget, they’re not going to, in fact, pay our debts,” he continued. “We’re going to, for the first time in American history, renege on…
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