Biden Faces First Major Climate Protest As President
Sunrise Movement, the youth campaigners behind the Green New Deal, are set to rally at the White House.
By Alexander C. Kaufman, Chris D’Angelo, and Philip Lewis
President Joe Biden’s honeymoon with climate activists looks set to end Friday as Green New Deal activists descended on the White House to demand that the administration abandon plans to water down its landmark infrastructure proposal.
On Friday morning, a few dozen Sunrise Movement volunteers and staffers rallied outside the White House to protest the Biden administration’s move to prioritize Republican support for his spending package over funding programs activists say are needed to transition the United States to a safer climate future.
“Now that Biden is in power, that promise of co-governance with progressives and young people has disappeared,” Varshini Prakash, executive director of Sunrise Movement, said in a statement before the protest. “He’s spent more of his time meeting with a Republican Party who to this day contests he is the democratically elected President.”
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