President Joe Biden is facing backlash across the country after he signed an Executive Order last week that canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, a move that also drew criticism from Canada.
The move by Biden comes after he signed Executive Orders on a wide range of issues last week during his first days in office, including orders on climate and energy matters.
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"Just like the rest of the country, COVID hurt us bad. We had a lot of projects canceled," Neal Crabtree, a welding foreman, spoke about being laid off. "We've got guys that haven't worked in months, and in some cases years, and to have a project of this magnitude canceled, it's going to hurt a lot of people, a lot of families, a lot of communities."
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In a Wednesday Facebook post, Crabtree, an Arkansas native, wrote that he is used to being laid off once a job is complete but that this situation was different because politics were involved.
“I got laid off for political reasons and stupidity and the future doesn’t look so bright,” Crabtree wrote. “I’ve got a sickening feeling in my stomach tonight and an aching feeling in my heart that I’ve never felt.”
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Crabtree continued in his post: “At the end of every job I always shake the hands of the people I hire and the people that are sent from our Unions out of work list before they’re laid off. We laugh and smile and are proud of a job well done. Today it wasn’t like that, I laid guys off because the President doesn’t won’t them to work. I went to my truck and literally cried.”
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Josh Senk, general manager of Michels Corporation, slammed Biden during a press conference in Wisconsin, saying, “The recent actions of President Joe Biden, the Executive Order halting the construction of the Keystone pipeline has affected Michels, thousands of union trade members across the country, and hundreds of guys that specifically work in Wisconsin.”
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Earlier this week, an unnamed general manager on the pipeline went viral on social media after telling cameras that hundreds of his co-workers had already been laid off in Wisconsin, a state that voted for Biden in November by a margin of less than 1%.
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In one of his first acts as president, Biden announced that his administration would revoke a key permit needed for the pipeline, claiming that the 1,700-mile project does “not serve the U.S. national interest.”
The cancellation is expected to lead to the loss of as many as 11,000 jobs in the United States, which incoming Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg argued will be mitigated by jobs created in the green sector.
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