Joe Biden and Lauren Boebert Exchange Blows in Colorado

President Joe Biden and Representative Lauren Boebert exchanged attacks on one another over the Inflation Reduction Act as the president arrived in Colorado for a two-day tour of the state.

The president is visiting the state to drum up support for the act and clean energy investments.

During his tour, he will visit the CS Wind factory—said to be the world's largest wind turbine tower manufacturing plant—based in Pueblo, the biggest city that Boebert represents from the state's third congressional district. The company has said Biden's act made its $200 million expansion in Pueblo possible. The expansion is set to be completed in 2028 and will create an additional 850 jobs.

But Boebert, along with other Republican representatives, voted against it, and she has called it "a complete scam."

Speaking to KKTV 11 News, Boebert reiterated her criticisms of the cost of the act.

"I am very proud of the work that CS Winds is doing there in Pueblo and the jobs that they're creating, but as I stated this will cost the taxpayers overall from the Inflation Reduction Act hundreds of billions of dollars," she said. "This bill was a complete scam."

A White House spokesperson told the network in response: "If Representative Boebert had her way, Colorado would have lost out on over $5.6 billion in infrastructure projects already announced in Colorado, including over $1 billion for high-speed internet from President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which Boebert called 'garbage' and 'wasteful'."

Meanwhile, Biden criticized the representative during a campaign fundraiser over her refusal to support the act.

"The congresswoman, along with every single one of her Republican colleagues, voted against the law—and then she vowed to repeal it," Biden said. "She called it a 'massive failure.'"

Newsweek has contacted representatives for Biden, and Boebert's office to comment on this story.

In 2022, Biden passed the Inflation Reduction Act, saying it would "allow us to boldly take the steps towards meeting all my climate goals, the ones we set out and the ones we ran."

The legislation includes more than $300 billion in energy and climate investments aimed at reducing the nation's carbon emissions by 40 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

The law established a 15 percent minimum tax rate for large corporations and set aside $64 billion to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies through 2025 and allows Medicare to negotiate the cost of some prescription drugs.

Opponents have argued the measure drives up energy prices and does nothing to reduce inflation.

"It's taking the most aggressive action ever on climate and energy," Biden said in a speech at the White House before an audience of Democratic lawmakers and others on the first anniversary of the act. "This law is one of the biggest drivers of jobs and economic growth that this country has ever seen."

Biden and Boebert have in the past clashed over the act. In August, while speaking in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Biden made a dig at Boebert's expense over CS Wind's expansion. "Coincidentally, CS Wind is Congresswoman Lauren Boebert—you know, the very quiet Republican lady—it's in her district," he quipped.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Boebert hit back: "Joe Biden said that I'm a 'very quiet Republican lady.' Wishful thinking, Joe. I'm calling you out every single day and I won't be getting more quiet about it anytime soon."