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Related: About this forumAfter Joe Manchin tanked a major clean energy plan, Biden will reportedly unveil a massive
$500 billion effort to fight the climate crisisAlthough Democrats are working toward a slimmed-down framework for their social spending bill, a priority many of them had from the start - significant investments in combatting the climate crisis - looks like it might make the cut.
Sources familiar with the matter told Axios on Tuesday that the climate portion of Democrats' social-sending bill is "mostly settled" and will have a pricetag of $500-555 billion, which isn't too far off the $600 billion proposal Democrats first proposed under their initial $3.5 trillion package.
President Joe Biden had previously expressed concerns that the bill would not meet the urgency of the climate crisis after West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin - a centrist Democratic holdout on the bill - opposed the inclusion of the Clean Electricity Performance Program (CEPP), which would have allowed for Biden to reach his goal to cut carbon emissions in half by 2030.
"This will be, just as a matter of fact, the biggest climate bill in human history," Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz told Axios. "At least a half a trillion dollars. That's a pretty good story to tell at the Conference of Parties," he added, referring to the United Nations (UN) climate summit in Glasgow next week. Biden, too, is looking ahead to the UN summit, saying the "prestige" of the US is at stake on the world stage without a significant climate plan.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/after-joe-manchin-tanked-a-major-clean-energy-plan-biden-will-reportedly-unveil-a-massive-dollar500-billion-effort-to-fight-the-climate-crisis/ar-AAQ13ag
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After Joe Manchin tanked a major clean energy plan, Biden will reportedly unveil a massive (Original Post)
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
Oct 2021
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2naSalit
(86,822 posts)1. This is why we need to...
Strengthen our majority in both houses of Congress so that this country can move forward instead being stalled in temper-tantrum hell.
calimary
(81,521 posts)4. Yes. So Joe Manchin and Miss Kyrsten don't count anymore.
And anyone else thinking of playing spoiler in the future.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)2. Does anybody think Manchin will be Trump's running mate in '24?
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,756 posts)3. That's ridiculous.
He pisses me off all the time, if thats going too far
Irish_Dem
(47,482 posts)6. Somebody promised him something big. Who the hell knows what.