Biden’s climate czar is reportedly making moves out of the administration to support what he contends is the “single biggest” thing to advance the green agenda.
With nearly a century of combined time as politicians, President Joe Biden and his Special Presidential Envoy for Climate (SPEC) John Kerry have kept their octogenarian fingers on the pulse of power, and are showing no signs of stepping away. In order to do that, the career politician who became secretary of State after his own failed presidential bid is expected to step down from his current role and hit the campaign trail.
According to a report from Axios Saturday, before winter ends, the climate czar will be out of the White House in order to best secure the future of “climate progress.”
“Kerry, 80, thinks Biden’s reelection is the ‘single biggest’ difference that can be made this year for climate progress at home and globally,” detailed the outlet citing “a source close to the administration.”
Kerry told NBC News he will work to help re-elect President Biden by campaigning on climate issue accomplishments.
“I think given this is an election year and Congress is frozen, I’m stepping down, but I’m not leaving the issue — I will work on it from other vantage points,” he said.
A former secretary of state in the Obama administration, Kerry is leaving Saturday for Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is meeting next week.
Kerry also told NBC News that he will do whatever he can to help re-elect President Joe Biden in 2024 by campaigning on what Biden has accomplished on the climate issue.
Indications of his shifting roles from SPEC to surrogate came only days after joining the president in the Oval Office to discuss December’s United Nations COP28 climate summit in Dubai.
It also followed Kentucky Rep. James Comer (R) directing a probe at the jet-setting Kerry over concerns about the climate czar’s private communications with “leftist environmental groups” ahead of joining the Powering Past Coal Alliance and its globalist plans to abandon coal production.
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The interconnectedness of Biden and Kerry goes beyond their time served in the U.S. Senate and President Barack Obama’s administration together as they are also facing intense scrutiny for their ties to China.
While congressional investigations have increasingly sought answers on the influence-peddling that then-Vice President Biden had allegedly engaged in connected to his son Hunter Biden’s foreign business arrangements, it’s worth nothing that the younger Biden’s infamous firm, Rosemont Seneca Partners, had been co-founded in part with Kerry’s stepson, Chris Heinz.
The Axios report even made mention of the tangled web of Chinese ties as it noted, “Kerry’s longtime Chinese counterpart, Xie Zhenhua, who was brought out of retirement when Biden named Kerry to the post, just retired again. Xie’s plans prompted speculation about Kerry’s future.”
On X, the climate czar issued a glowing statement about Xie that began, “Throughout my career, I’ve learned the things that matter most are the people you meet along the way. The strangers who become counterparts who become friends.”
“Xie Zhenhua has been one such friend. For decades now, he and I have worked together to ensure that our countries work to rise above other issues to demand that the world tackle the climate crisis, which threatens all of humanity,” continued Kerry. “From when we first met years ago, to the Sunnylands Statement and COP28 this past year, we’ve had many differences, but we’ve often found common ground and have been able to make significant progress together. I’m saddened to hear of his retirement–but I wish him well in his next chapter and I hope he keeps his voice in this crucial fight.”
Throughout my career, I’ve learned the things that matter most are the people you meet along the way. The strangers who become counterparts who become friends.
Xie Zhenhua has been one such friend. For decades now, he and I have worked together to ensure that our countries work… pic.twitter.com/Bj9qCt68RR
— Special Presidential Envoy John Kerry (@ClimateEnvoy) January 12, 2024
Before exiting the White House, Kerry is still slated to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos as well as the Munich Security Conference scheduled for February.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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