Mayor of South Bend Indiana and presidential hopeful Pete Buttigieg said Wednesday that President Donald Trump and his “congressional enablers” were to blame for not taking any action on climate change.
“It’s not just him. It’s all of the enablers in the Congressional GOP,” Buttigieg said at CNN’s climate town hall. “I mean, Congress right now it’s like, it’s like a room full of doctors arguing about what to do over a cancer patient. And half of them are arguing over whether medication or surgery is the best approach. And the other half is saying cancer doesn’t exist,” he added.
Buttigieg made the remarks after a viewer asked him what he would say to the President during a climate debate. The mayor stressed that he couldn’t think of anything that would have an effect with Trump, The Hill writes.
“I can’t think of anything I could ask him other than, ‘Would you please step aside and allow us to do something about this issue because you’re clearly not ready to lead’,” Buttigieg responded.
Earlier on Wednesday, he released his own climate proposal before calling for unity later in the day to tackle the issue of climate change, an effort that he compared to that needed to win World War II.
“We have to actually unify the country around this project. And that means bringing people to the table who haven’t felt that they’ve been part of the process. I mean, this is the hardest thing we will have done certainly in my lifetime,” Buttigieg said. “This is on par with winning World War II, perhaps even more challenging than that.”
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