Sen. Joe Manchin said Friday that an inflation report prompted him to pull support for proposed Biden administration climate change and tax reform.
Manchin said he would support prescription drug reform that would allow Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices.
The conservative Democrat from West Virginia, who had holdings in 2021 valued between $1 million and $5 million in the coal brokerage Enersystems, according to a financial disclosure statement, is refusing to support his party’s climate change proposals.
Manchin said he won’t support the proposed climate change legislation because he’s alarmed over high inflation.
In an interview with West Virginia broadcaster Hoppy Kercheval, Manchin repeated Friday that it was inflation that caused him to withdraw his support for climate change legislation.
Manchin said he asked Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., to wait until July inflation numbers come out before he’d consider supporting the Biden agenda on climate change and tax hikes for corporations and the wealthy.
According to The Hill, Schumer wanted to include $375 billion for climate change and energy-related provisions, but Manchin refused to vote for a reconciliation bill to get it done before Labor Day.
Manchin did express support for extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies that help keep healthcare costs lower for millions of Americans.
According to the Washington Post, many Democrats feel they might be squandering a generational opportunity to address climate change should the Washington D.C., power balance shift before it can get done.
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Joe Biden, traitor to his Race, traitor to his gender, traitor to his religion, traitor to his country, loyal only to his party. Joe Manchin, remembers who he is, of the race that begat American rights, what and how a real man is supposed to act, loves his God and is a patriot to his country, and when given the choice of Party over Country, he cannot be bribed. Joe and Joe,,,,one a great cup of coffee, the other a poison more deadly to America than the Hemlock Biden keeps asking THE PEOPLE to drink in. Manchin is a traditional Democrat who follows the Healing Hippocratic Oath of “First do no harm”, an offshoot of the Socratic teachers oath of just “Do no Harm”. Biden the Obama Alinsky puppet who follows the new Democratic Oath of “First do what is necessary to gain power even if criminal, don’t sweat the collateral damage, and keep THE PEOPLE’s memory short.”
What a difference a man makes. Dems need t swap Joe’s,,,Biden back to the Senate where he can hide, Manchin to the Whitehouse where if he can’t save his party from committing suicide, he can save the rest of the nation from doing it.
“for extending the Affordable Care Act subsidies that help keep healthcare costs lower for millions of Americans”. Great propaganda by the press. Because of the ACA, health insurance deductibles went through the roof, so health care costs, as a result, went through the roof. With regard to global warming, plain and simple, the elitists want to get rid of the middle class through higher costs in the power grid and gasoline and these elitists want to make electricity unreliable so that we “peons” can and will suffer!!!!
The so-called affordable care act is just a means of gays, queers, drug users and casual sexual impregnators to engage in dangerous sex without the normal consequences of the correcting behavioral pain, now removed at the taxpayer’s expense. People today are deluded that any corrupt act to their bodies is OK, and the damage done is that we have created a nation of Hunter Bidens, now graduated into positions of power in Washington, making America weak, weak, weak. So much for moral integrity and the ability to self-govern one’s own lives. We were better off when people feared to use drugs and engage in strange sex because they had to pay the price themselves in medical costs, and drugs expenses. Remove the pain, and the corruption gains. The Democrat party of enablers is the biggest pain of all.
GOOD>..
Only half-way sensible Dem in the entire Congress. Half a wit is better than none.
BUT he’s still a Dem..