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   The White House's national climate adviser, Gina McCarthy,   
   responded on Sunday to claims made by Republicans that President   
   Biden’s climate plan includes a ban on red meat, concluding that   
   “we’re all in a lotta trouble” if people think consuming less   
   meat is the “entire solution to climate change.”   
      
   In an “Axios on HBO” interview that aired Sunday, journalist   
   Mike Allen asked McCarthy why the “completely made-up notion”   
   pushed by “right-wing media” that Biden was “coming for your   
   hamburgers” took off.   
      
   McCarthy, who previously served as the administrator of the   
   Environmental Protection Agency under former President Obama,   
   took the question as an opportunity to hit Republicans for   
   having a “very losing argument.”   
      
   “If you have to make up stuff like that, you must have a very   
   losing argument, number one,” McCarthy said. “And secondly, man,   
   if people think that switching your hamburger or going down to   
   less meat is the entire solution to climate change, we're all in   
   a lotta trouble.”   
      
   McCarthy’s remarks come after Larry Kudlow, the chief economic   
   adviser under former President Trump, last month said that   
   Biden’s climate plan is coming for American meat, prompting the   
   U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to announce that there was   
   no truth to the claims.   
      
   “There's a study coming out of the University of Michigan which   
   says that to meet the Biden Green New Deal targets, America has   
   to, get this, America has to stop eating meat. Stop eating   
   poultry, fish, seafood, eggs, dairy and animal-based fats,”   
   Kudlow said on his Fox Business show.   
      
   “No burgers on July 4. No steaks on the barbie. I'm sure Middle   
   America is just gonna love that. Can you grill those Brussels   
   sprouts? So get ready, you can throw back a plant-based beer   
   with your grilled Brussels sprouts and wave your American flag,”   
   he added.   
      
   A swarm of Republican lawmakers chimed in on Kudlow's comments.   
      
   Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) tweeted a photo of Biden   
   eating a hamburger with the caption “The Hamburglar.” Rep.   
   Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) tweeted for Biden to “stay out of my   
   kitchen.”   
      
   Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) joined the chorus of Republican   
   lawmakers by tweeting, “Not gonna happen in Texas!”   
      
   The USDA called the claims made by Republicans “a fabrication.”   
      
   “This is a fabrication. There is no such effort or policy that   
   exists by this Administration. It’s not a part of the climate   
   plan nor the emissions targets. It is not real,” a USDA   
   spokesperson previously told The Hill.   
      
   Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack also denied the notion that   
   there is an effort to limit red meat consumption.   
      
   “There is no effort designed to limit people’s intake of beef   
   coming out of President Biden’s White House or USDA,” Vilsack   
   said during a virtual briefing hosted by the North American   
   Agricultural Journalists, according to Politico. “Sometimes in   
   the political world, games get played and issues are injected   
   into the conversation knowing full well that there’s no factual   
   basis.”   
      
   Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) mocked Kudlow’s   
   comments days later, tweeting a photo of himself with the   
   caption “Excited to be watching the Oscars with an ice cold   
   plant-based beer.”   
      
   https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/554986-biden-   
   advisor-says-reducing-red-meat-isnt-sole-climate-change   
        
      
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