Manchin returns to Build Back Better negotiations with demands https://www.axios.com/scoop-manchin-new-play-2cb59ff0-1577-44bf-81a4-a0d72b7e9be2.html Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is open to reengaging on the climate and child care provisions in President Biden's Build Back Better agenda if the White House removes the enhanced child tax credit from the $1.75 trillion package — or dramatically lowers the income caps for eligible families, people familiar with the matter tell Axios. Why it matters: The holdback senator's engagement on specifics indicates negotiations between him and the White House could get back on track, even after Manchin declared he was a “no” on the package on Dec. 19. The senator’s concerns with the size and the scope of the package remain. His belief that it could cost more than $4 trillion over 10 years extends beyond the CTC issue, and he continues to tell colleagues he’s concerned about the inflationary effects of so much government spending, Axios is told. The Bureau of Labor Statistics will release its next Consumer Price Index on Jan. 12. Last month's reading put inflation at 6.8% for the year — fueling Manchin's opposition. The big picture: Manchin and top White House aides traded recriminations after their negotiations fell apart — but President Biden and the senator subsequently spoke by phone late in the evening of Dec. 19. They agreed to continue to talk, and Manchin stayed in touch with senior White House officials over the holidays. The week before Christmas, reports emerged about how close he and Biden were on a potential deal. The details included a $1.8 trillion offer from Manchin that contained money for universal preschool and green tax credits but nothing for the child tax credit, which provides families up to $3,600 per child per year. Families who make up to $400,000 had been receiving some CTC payments under the program that ended Jan. 1. Between the lines: One possible solution to the stalemate would be to remove the CTC from the Build Back Better legislation, which the Senate plans to pass with only Democratic votes. The chamber could then have a separate, focused debate during a midterm year about making the tax credits permanent. Some Republicans, like Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah), are supportive of the CTC, but it’s unclear if Democrats could find all 10 Republicans needed to clear the 60-vote threshold for passing major legislation.
We are headed to round 2 of Build Back BS bill. Apparently, Democrats still trying to pressure Senator Joe Manchin to capitulate on their freebies. I will continue to provide opposition to this BS bill which will be highly inflationary without any benefit to majority of Americans. Will do my utmost to convince Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema to reject the Build Back BS bill totally. Cut it down to $500 billion and give majority of Americans a 4th stimulus check for $3,000 each and be done with it. That is way cheaper and helps more Americans than adding another $1.75 trillion to the US economy.
Looks like Senator Joe Manchin pulled his proposal which might be good news if he sticks to his principles and for what is good for majority of American citizens. Thank you Senator. You are a true patriot. https://news.yahoo.com/joe-manchin-finally-spikes-1-220308081.html
Maybe they can harass Manchin by following him in to the men's room and then posting pictures of him going in to a toilet stall on youtube. That could work. OR NOT.
Extreme liberals did that stunt on Senator Kyrsten Sinema by following her to the toilet and harassing her there. She told them that she will be not intimidated and change her positions.
How Manchin used politics to protect his family coal company Selling scrap coal has earned Sen. Joe Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel from laws and regulations that threaten his family's business. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/08/manchin-family-coal-company-00003218 As governor, Joe Manchin supported an unusual detail in a clean energy bill that was moving through the West Virginia Legislature in 2009. The provision classified waste coal as an alternative energy. The muddy mix of discarded coal and rocks is one of the most carbon-intensive fuels in America. And Manchin’s family business stood to benefit financially when it was reclassified as something akin to solar, wind and hydropower. Selling the scrap coal has earned Manchin millions of dollars over three decades, and he has used his political positions to protect the fuel — and a single power plant in West Virginia that burns it — from laws and regulations that also threatened his family business. It continues today. Only now Manchin has enormous influence over federal climate policy. He is using his chair role of the energy committee — and role as maverick Democrat – to shape environmental policy across the states. His opposition in December to a sweeping $1.7 trillion social spending bill known as Build Back Better ruptured one of the most ambitious climate packages in U.S. history. Then last week Manchin offered what stands to be his final word on the bill: “It’s dead,” he said. Manchin’s political power over the clean energy sector has national implications today. But he has wielded his influence for years. And one of his main goals has always been to protect coal. In 2009 he used one of his last actions as governor to sign a renewable energy law. The measure was described as a way to increase the state’s amount of clean power to 25 percent by 2025. But it also shielded the waste coal that helped build Manchin’s fortune. Classifying it as an alternative energy source allowed utilities to count it toward their renewable electricity goals. That infuriated some members of his own party, who saw the law as a way to jump-start the state’s transition to a cleaner future. It hasn’t worked. More than a decade after the law was enacted, just 6 percent of the state’s power is derived from renewable sources. Eighty-eight percent comes from coal. “Everything that he does, everything that he did when he was governor, everything that he has done while he is a senator, is going to advance his best interest and the interest of the people who put money in his pocket, period,” said Nancy Peoples Guthrie, who was a Democratic state lawmaker at the time. “That’s all you need to know about Joe Manchin.” (More at above url)