The billions and billions and billions of US money spent on the Paris Climate Accord equals $3 billion of which the US has paid $ 1 billion – PB/TK
Trump Thinks We Spend “Billions and Billions and Billions” on the Paris Climate Deal. We Don’t. – By Ian Prasad Philbrick / June 2 2017
On Thursday afternoon, Donald Trump delivered a factually challenged speech announcing that the United States would exit the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. In his address, the president made the case that staying in costs American taxpayers exorbitant amounts of money.
“We’re going to be paying billions and billions and billions of dollars,” Trump claimed in his Rose Garden announcement. Here’s the full quote:
Beyond the severe energy restrictions inflicted by the Paris Accord, it includes yet another scheme to redistribute wealth out of the United States through the so-called Green Climate Fund—nice name—which calls for developed countries to send $100 billion to developing countries all on top of America’s existing and massive foreign aid payments. So we’re going to be paying billions and billions and billions of dollars, and we’re already way ahead of anybody else. Many of the other countries haven’t spent anything, and many of them will never pay one dime.
Continue to slate.com article: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2017/06/02/president_trump_falsely_claims_the_u_s_spends_billions_and_billions_and.html
