“Creating 1 million jobs upgrading 4 million buildings and weatherizing 2 million homes over 4 years, cutting the carbon footprint of the nation's building stock.”
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Independently verified. The promise is a genuine July 2020 Biden campaign pledge ('The Biden Plan to Build a Modern, Sustainable Infrastructure and an Equitable Clean Energy Future': upgrade 4M buildings, weatherize 2M homes, create 1M jobs over 4 years). All three cited sources are real, live, and accurately quoted. As president, Biden actively drove and signed two landmark laws aimed at the promise: the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (a $3.5B boost to the Weatherization Assistance Program) and the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act (HOMES efficiency and HEAR electrification rebates, the 25C retrofit tax credit, and building programs). These were enacted with real funding flowing, and clean-energy/energy-efficiency employment grew (the energy-efficiency sector supported ~2.3M jobs in 2023, adding ~75k). However, the specific numeric targets were missed by roughly an order of magnitude: WAP's ~35,000-homes-per-year capacity makes 2M homes unreachable in the window, the 4M-building and 1M-job goals were not met at scale, and much IRA rebate money had not yet reached homes by the end of his term (Jan 2025). This is more than ATTEMPTED (the legislation landed, not just a vote) but far short of full delivery, i.e. kept some but not all. The only real tension is CHAMPIONED vs PARTIAL; given the very large shortfall against the quantitative promise, PARTIAL (0.5) fairly weights strong leadership against incomplete delivery, and the same record from either party would earn the same label. Rating confirmed.
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