Senator Joe Manchin. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images The White House is struggling to find a way to significantly address climate change after Democratic senator Joe Manchin reportedly signaled his opposition to President Biden’s clean-power plan, a critical element of his climate agenda.
Manchin’s vote is essential to Democrats’ plan to pass the massive spending bill via the reconciliation process in the Senate. Manchin’s spokesperson, Sam Runyon, told the New York Times that the senator opposes “using taxpayer dollars to pay private companies to do things they’re already doing.” The CEPP would have forced utility companies to make the switch from fossil fuels to sustainable power sources like solar, wind, and nuclear power, as well as penalizing those who did not.
“This is absolutely the most important climate policy in the package,” Leah Stokes, an expert on climate policy who has been advising Senate Democrats on how to craft the program, told the Times. “We fundamentally need it to meet our climate goals. That’s just the reality. And now we can’t. So this is pretty sad.”
He's a DINO. Accept it and take what you can get.
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