Vice President Kamala Harris faced backlash after posting a Thanksgiving photo with a gas stove in the background.

Harris posed with her husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, seemingly in their kitchen, with the caption: "From our family to yours, happy Thanksgiving." But it was the stove, rather than the couple, that took the spotlight due to the Biden administration floating the idea of banning gas stoves because of the chemicals they emit.

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"Wait…that’s a gas stove!" Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) responded to the photo on X, formerly known as Twitter. "The same kind Dems want to BAN you from owning."

"Everyone loves gas stoves!" Rep. Pat Fallon (R-TX) wrote. "Stop trying to ban them and just let Americans cook how they please."

"Are they? A) Hypocritical B) That stupid that they didn’t realize it," former Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wrote.

Consumer Product Safety Commissioner Richard Trumka Jr. said in January that his agency was weighing a ban on gas stoves due to health hazards. But due to the fallout of Trumka's comments, Consumer Product Safety Chairman Alex Hoehn-Saric walked back the remarks, and President Joe Biden has not publicly supported a ban on gas stoves.

But the regulation debate did not end there, especially after Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) made New York the first state to ban natural gas and fossil fuels in new buildings. Republicans moved quickly to prevent a ban, with the House passing a bill in June that wouldn't allow the CPSC to do so. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) removed the sales tax on gas stoves until June 30, 2024.

Biden has allotted $169 million for electric heat pump projects with his emergency authority on the basis of climate change. The president was able to get the funds via the Cold War-era Defense Production Act, marking the first time a president classified climate change as an emergency.

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American Gas Association President and CEO Karen Harbert claimed that the natural gas industry has reduced "60% of the electrical grid’s CO2 emissions" and, therefore, should not be interfered with by the president's "misuse of the Defense Production Act.”

The United States residential sector makes up 15% of overall natural gas consumption, which includes heating water and spaces, according to the Energy Information Administration.