Obama administration

“We've seen them enacted during the Obama administration, we've seen them during the Trump administration, and we've seen them continued under the Biden administration. Turns out there's one thing that they can all agree on is, ah, protectionism.”

“And as part of the 2009 economic stimulus package, it issued a two hundred and forty nine million dollar grant to an up and coming company with a novel cathode for lithium ion batteries.”

“Many of the promises from the Obama era, ah, a million EVs on the roads by 2015, ah, owning 40% of the world's battery manufacturing, creating a million new manufacturing jobs, they just didn't materialize as expected.”