With the Middle East on the verge of clacking off into full-scale war and the fear of a stock market collapse building, the Biden administration is focused on banning single-use plastic utensils — after declaring a crisis, of course.

The White House recently announced the “first comprehensive, government-wide strategy to target plastic pollution at production, with the goal of phasing out procurement of single-use plastic products by 2050 through the selection of “reusable, compostable, and highly recyclable products.”

“Communities across the United States and around the world are facing a plastic pollution crisis. Plastic production and waste have doubled over the past two decades, littering our ocean, poisoning the air of communities near production facilities, and threatening public health,” the Democratic administration declared.

“President Biden is committed to taking ambitious actions throughout the lifecycle of plastic to end plastic pollution and is working with the global community to do the same,” the White House added, saying it will “further leverage the purchasing power of the federal government to reduce emissions, protect public health, and spur markets for new sustainable products.”

The efforts are intended to “reinforce United States leadership in ongoing international efforts to develop a strong agreement to tackle the plastic pollution crisis across the globe.”

Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD)  said the policy is “par for the course” for the Biden administration.

“The world’s on fire and he’s worried about plastic forks,” Rounds told the Daily Mail. “Look, I certainly understand that plastics are a pollutant, we need to do a better job with it. But I’m a little bit hesitant to say that this plastic ban will be a good thing.”

“Black and white mandates like this typically backfire,” he added. “I think there’s things that we could do as a government, as well as individuals, to keep improving our environment.”

Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS) told the Daily Mail that Biden’s effort is “absurd” and “laughable.”

“I mean, first of all, what is so bad about plastic forks and spoons? I mean, I assume the biggest impact this will have will be at government workplaces, military bases, things like that,” Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) told the tabloid. “Does that mean that they’re going to have to have, like, stainless steel silverware everywhere, with a lot of people washing dishes, and what about people who need things to go?”

Instead, Lee suggested Biden should consider shrinking the size of the government.

“They should shrink the government if they want it to be less of a consumer. The reason it’s the largest consumer is because it’s it employs so many people, and it’s doing so many things it was probably never intended to do,” the GOP senator accurately noted. “So if they want to reduce the impact of the U.S. government environmentally, they should right-size the government.”

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