Manchin Lays Out Long List of Demands

[Celerity]

13. I remind all of this rot he spewed in July, and then say I am surprised at how many are surprised

he is tossing a spanner on the works on most anything green. He and Sinema already helped to crush most of the green things in the bi-partisan bill.

"If they're eliminating fossils, and I'm finding out there's a lot of language in places they're eliminating fossils, which is very, very disturbing, because if you're sticking your head in the sand, and saying that fossil (fuel) has to be eliminated in America, and they want to get rid of it, and thinking that's going to clean up the global climate, it won't clean it up all," Manchin told CNN in July of his party's plans. "If anything, it would be worse."

He and Sinema already helped strip out almost 80% of all the new spending in the bipartisan hard infrastructure bill

Biden wanted $2.6 trillion new spend ($2.2 trillion for programmes and $400 billion in tax credits to fight global climate change)

the bill ended up at $550 billion new spend, and ALL tax credits removed

more detail here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=15833203

these pie charts alone show the level of gutting

The Infrastructure Plan: What’s In and What’s Out (it's brutal)

Biden's original plan:



What was left after they took a 2 trillion USD hatchet to it