Washington — West Virginia Democratic Senator Joe Manchin III unplugged Thursday in negotiations to bail out a key part of President Biden’s agenda, helping him fund climate and energy programs and the wealthy United States. He informed party leaders that he would not support a tax increase on people. Corporation.
Conservative Democrat Manchin’s decision effectively slows Biden’s economic package in an evenly divided Senate and establishes a broader social safety net, climate, and tax package. Had a devastating blow to.
In recent months, Democrats have shattered ambitions for such a plan to beat Manchin, hoping to agree to support even just a few of the drastic initiatives Manchin once envisioned. rice field. His sudden changes seemed to shatter those desires.
The shift ended weeks of painstaking negotiations to put together a package that could win Mr Manchin’s support. It was seven months after the West Virginia people suddenly left the negotiations and rejected a much larger plan.
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Manchin spokeswoman Sam Lun-young said, “Political for millions of Americans struggling to buy food and gas as inflation soars to 9.1%. The headline is worthless. ” “It’s time for leaders to set aside political agendas and reassess and adapt to the economic realities facing the country, Senator Manchin said, to avoid taking steps to add fuel to the fire of inflation. believe.”
“Senator Manchin isn’t away from the table,” she added.
As of Thursday morning, Democrats were cautiously optimistic that an agreement could be reached, provided Mr Manchin followed repeated calls to deal with government bonds, tax reforms and drug prices.
Washington post Details of previously reported conversationsIt was confirmed by two people who were described in the discussion.
Democrats support the Senate with a majority of 50-50, so Mr Manchin vetoed a domestic policy package that the party planned to move under a special rapid budget process that would make it possible. I was able to exercise my rights effectively. Bypass filibuster and pass by a simple majority. As the Democrats prepare for their defeat in the midterm elections this fall, this package could be the last chance for the party to enact heavy spending and tax legislation while holding the White House and both houses. I have.
By refusing to supply climate and energy, Manchin would have been Biden’s ambitious climate agenda and perhaps the largest single federal investment in U.S. history to address the victims of climate change. Seemed to be crushed with one hand.
His decision was made shortly after reports showed prices soared to 9.1% in June, exacerbating Americans’ existing concerns about daily inflation and rising costs. However, although Mr Manchin has long warned about inflation and government bonds, he was also tolerant of tax law reviews, and his position seemed to be reversed.
It surprised Democratic officials who worked to win Mr Manchin’s vote. Just recently Friday, the Democratic Party said it had merged plans to use funds from tax increases for some high-income Americans to expand the solvency of major Medicare funds.
But it was especially devastating to those who defended the climate and energy supply. One person who spoke with Schumaer called various climate activists on Thursday night, saying that Schumaer and his staff sounded shocked and that trading was still possible until a few hours ago. He said he believed.
Without Congressional action, Biden’s goal of cutting US emissions by about half by the end of the decade would not be possible. The goal was to maintain the Earth to stabilize its climate with a warming of about 1.5 degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial levels.
The earth is already warming to about 1.1 degrees Celsius or about 2 degrees Fahrenheit. Parliamentarians and activists who led the accusations of action to combat climate change expressed anger on Thursday night.
Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat in Oregon and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said: “This is the last chance to prevent the most devastating and costly effects of climate change. We will be back in another decade and the economy of hundreds of billions (if not trillions). It is irreversible to prevent human damage and undo inevitable human damage. “
“If we can’t move forward as we expected, we need to retrieve as much of this package as possible,” he added. “The phrase failure is not an option is often used, but failure is not really an option here.”
Leah Stokes, a professor of environmental policy at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who advised Congressional Democrats on climate law, was the number she and other activists, scientists, and legislative staff put into negotiations Thursday night. I explained about the work of the moon and sobbed.
“The stakes are very high,” she said. “It’s just annoying that he blames our own children.”
Many were angry with Mr. Manchin. They criticized him for watering packages that would have been sufficient to drastically reduce emissions at one stage, adding fossil fuel projects that violated climate targets, while dragging negotiators. On the final day of the talks, clean energy tax cuts were significantly reduced, and Manchin was working to include approval for offshore oil and gas leases and permission for fossil fuel projects in his state. Said a parliamentary aide.
Manchin has blamed future generations, said Thienan Sittenfeld, senior vice president of government affairs for the nonprofit Conservation Voters’ Federation.
“There really isn’t a good word for printing at the New York Times, at least how frightened and resentful we are,” she said.