Posted on 07/14/2022 9:24:16 PM PDT by 11th_VA
(CNN) Sen. Joe Manchin and his staff told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and his staff "unequivocally" on Thursday the West Virginia Democrat won't support the climate or tax provisions of a Democratic economic package that the two had been negotiating for months, according to two sources familiar with the talks.
Schumer, a New York Democrat, made a number of concessions to pare back the climate provisions but Manchin would not budge.
Manchin told Schumer he will not support a bill this month with any provisions on energy or climate, or consider raising taxes on the wealthy or corporations, which represents a massive blow to President Joe Biden's legislative agenda ahead of November's midterms.
The Washington Post first reported Manchin's comments to Democratic leadership.
Manchin had torpedoed a $1.75 trillion version of Biden's climate and economic bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, in December, angering the White House and Democrats who had pushed for a much larger $3.5 trillion spending plan at the beginning of the Biden administration.
The change in tone of the latest negotiations was abrupt. Manchin had supported those provisions throughout the negotiations with the majority leader, both at the staff and member level, one of the sources familiar said.
"I'm not going to sugar coat my disappointment here, especially since nearly all issues in the climate and energy space had been resolved," Senate Finance Chair Ron Wyden, whose committee had jurisdiction over the clean energy tax credits and corporate tax provisions, said in a statement…
"This is nothing short of a death sentence," Varshini Prakash, co-founder of youth climate group Sunrise Movement, said in a statement.
"There truly aren't words for how appalled, outraged, and disappointed we are," Tiernan Sittenfeld, senior vice president of government affairs at the League of Conservation Voters, said...
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DINO Manchin. Or is he a RINO in disguise?
i dont get it. There’s no election for him until 24’ s/
Remain a ‘hero’ or go from hero to zero.
Time will tell.
People in WV are probably suffering more than most right now, Biden has put coal under assault Manchin will NEVER survive going along with Biden on ANYTHING!! Doesn’t matter if he is safe till 2024 people in WV will STILL be suffering then coal mining is HUGE in WV!!
H (Hero) is the 9th letter.
Z (Zer0) is the 18th letter
Midway between is “Q”
So a Mugwump by default shall be a QUEEROR!
Sure he will. 🙄
Well AK only has 1 coal mine so it probably won’t affect her...
Maybe democrats will impeach him.
“i dont get it. There’s no election for him until 24’ s/”
I guess there’s a 5% chance a democrat could vote against the mob because it’s the right thing to do.
In WV, he’s walking a fine line. Could be he has many friends and family involved in the coal industry.
Manchin belongs in a museum since he’s the only existing example of what used to be known as a Democrat. That was back before they decided to embrace Marxism.
Do you remember Zig-Zag Zell Miller from Georgia?
Is he from WVa.
He doesn’t have a hint is accent.
I’m surprised they haven’t come up with an excuse to have the FBI to perform an early morning raid.
Perform is a good advective when comes to the FBI.
Is he from WVa.
He doesn’t have a hint OF accent.
Manchin votes with the Dems 99%
He’s holding out for more money. After he gets his payoff, he will change his mind. That’s the way it works.
If democrats could, they would kill anyone they don’t like or who dares to disagree with them - for now anyway. For now they have to settle for impeachment. They have so abused that instrument. Yeah, real guardians of “democracy” there. The democrat party is just a political cash nexus for extreme left wing and anarchist pressure groups that want to tear down American civil society.
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