Black activist to blast Biden admin energy agenda allegedly causing low-income households to ‘suffer most’
A director at a leading Black activist group is expected to slam the Biden administration’s energy agenda for prioritizing climate policies over the affordability crisis, according to an internal preview of Capitol Hill testimony.
Donna Jackson, the director of membership development at Project 21, a Black think tank at the National Center for Public Policy Research that seeks to promote the views of African Americans, is expected to testify during a House Budget Committee hearing Thursday dubbed, “The Cost of the Biden Energy Crisis.”
According to a copy of Jackson’s prepared remarks, she will comment on the cost of household appliances, electric vehicle mandates and how the housing affordability crisis is affecting Black Americans.
“Cars are also indispensable to raising a family. As a single mom who raised five kids, don’t even try to tell me that I could have done that by relying on public transportation,” Jackson says in prepared remarks.
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“Dangling free money in front of low-income households does not make up for the damage done. Whether it is proposals to