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Herschel Walker Declares We ‘Have Enough Trees’

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Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker (R) reiterated his opposition to Democrats' climate, health care and taxes bill over the weekend. The legislation has nearly $370 billion in spending on climate and energy programs and was signed into law by President Biden last week. The bill puts $1.5 billion toward the Urban and Community Forestry Assistance program, which plants trees in urban areas.

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The Independent

GOP Senate nominee slams climate bill by asking: ‘Don’t we have enough trees?’

The remarks are just the Georgia Republican Senate nominee’s latest outlandish statements about the climate crisis

2 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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CNN

Herschel Walker knocks new health care and climate law: 'Don't we have enough trees around here?'

Herschel Walker, the Republican Senate nominee in Georgia, criticized the spending provisions in the newly passed health care and climate law, including money allocated for an urban forestry program which he dismissed as unnecessary.

2 years ago·Atlanta, United States

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The Washington Post

Walker, criticizing climate law, asks, ‘Don’t we have enough trees around here?’

Georgia Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker is criticizing the sweeping climate, health-care and deficit-reduction bill signed into law by President Biden arguing that it includes wasteful spending to combat global warming and asking, “Don’t we have enough trees around here?”

2 years ago

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The Hill

Herschel Walker blasts climate bill: ‘Don’t we have enough trees around here?’

“They continue to try to fool you like they are helping you out. But they’re not. They’re not helping you out because a lot of money it’s going to trees,” Walker said, according to a clip of his re…

2 years ago·Washington, United States

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HuffPost

Herschel Walker: ‘Don’t We Have Enough Trees Around Here?’

“You know that some of this money is going into trees?” the Republican Senate candidate said at an event Sunday in response to the new climate law.

2 years ago·United States

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Raw Story

'Don’t we have enough trees?' GOP's Herschel Walker questions need for climate change spending

Republican candidate Herschel Walker questioned the wisdom of spending money on trees to mitigate climate change.Walker, the Donald Trump-endorsed former football star who won the GOP nomination for Georgia Senate, expressed his opposition to the newly signed Inflation Reduction Act, which boosts spending on climate change preparations and environmental initiatives, during a Republican Jewish Committee event, reported the Atlanta Journal-Constit…

2 years ago·United States

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