Republicans tried to dunk on Mamdani for saying people should set their thermostat to 78° during a heat wave so as not to overload the grid.
When it was pointed out that this is just standard advice from the Department of Energy, the Trump administration deleted 6,000 pages of documents on energy conservation from the DoE website.
Idiocracy wasn’t this dumb. 🤦🏾♂️
https://www.theverge.com/policy/961449/white-house-mamdani-heatwave-deletion
The VergeWhite House deletes thousands of web pages about energy conservation as heatwave slams USIt follows Republican outrage over Mamdani offering the same heatwave advice as everyone else.