President Biden will not ask Congress for help changing his $740 billion tax-and-climate law, the White House announced, despite the president’s acknowledgment that his seminal legislation contains “glitches” after receiving sharp criticism from French President Emmanuel Macron.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said Friday the administration would conduct “substantive consultations” with European counterparts to address their concerns about so-called protectionist measures contained in the law, known as the Inflation Reduction Act. But she clarified that the president is “not going to be addressing any glitches” written into the legislation.
“We don’t have any plans to go back to Congress for legislative changes to the Inflation Reduction Act at this time,” she said.