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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Larry Kudlow on Fox Business today to discuss the impact of a carbon tax and Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM). Excerpts and a link to the full video are below.

On a carbon tax:

“A carbon tax will raise the price of everything we buy, everything we grow, everything we manufacture, everything we produce, everything we sell. It’s in the value chain of everything we do all day long as a capitalist system. It would have a disproportionately negative impact on lower-income people. … Whether you make $50,000 a year or $500,000 a year, the price of gasoline is the same.”

“All 50 states are involved in the value chain of oil and gas production, and that’s without even talking about the importance of coal and the cost of reliable, resilient electricity. [Enacting a carbon tax is] liberals finding more ways to get more money to pay for more things the country probably doesn't need. … It’s an upside-down, wrong-headed approach.”

On Rep. Haaland’s Nomination to be Interior Secretary:

“I have a very specific problem with her, as does Senator [John] Hoeven. She actually came to North Dakota, served meals at the Dakota Access Pipeline protest site, and when asked point blank by Senator Hoeven in her confirmation hearing whether she would recuse herself from any issues related to the Dakota Access Pipeline – which, as you know, there still are some, even though it’s been operating very successfully for over three years now –she refused to recuse herself.”

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