The Republican party really embodies the old adage that the Americans will always do the right thing after they tried everything else. Looks like they are at the bargaining stage now.
Interestingly, in the house only 13 Democrats and 6 Republicans and only 2 Democrat and 1 independent senators have PhDs. COTUS is largely a collection of minimally-educated, medium-information shills for their donors who know nothing about science or engineering. List of members of COTUS who should be in prison: https://www.opensecrets.org/industries/recips.php?cycle=2022...
Also, it’s probably not donors when the majority of their base is still skeptical of climate science: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/for-earth...