November 4, 2022
Flailing Biden goes 'Hugo Chavez' with free heating oil handouts just as midterms approach
By Monica Showalter
Remember how Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez used to hand out cheap or free heating oil to U.S. NGOs, including Joe "Dial 1-877-Joe-4-Oil" Kennedy, in a meddling bid to win hearts and minds in the states?
Looks like Joe Biden's found another guy to plagiarize.
According to CNN:
The Biden administration is distributing $4.5 billion in federal assistance to help lower many Americans’ heating bills this winter as they brace for another season of sky-high energy costs.
The funds for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, known as LIHEAP, stem from regular appropriations by Congress, additional emergency funding lawmakers included in September’s continuing resolution and $100 million from the bipartisan infrastructure law that passed last year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.
LIHEAP funds are distributed to states, territories and tribes, which use the money to help people pay their home heating and cooling costs, settle arrears and make home energy repairs to lower their utility bills in the future.
More than 5.3 million households were served this past year, according to the agency.
However, more funds are needed, advocates said. The cost of home energy this winter is at the highest level in more than 15 years, said Mark Wolfe, executive director of the National Energy Assistance Directors Association.
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