"While Biden repeatedly vowed to address the climate crisis, his climate agenda was dealt a major setback back in Washington, D.C., when Democratic Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia criticized the slimmed-down $1.75 trillion Build Back Plan to address the climate crisis and to expand the nation’s social safety net. The plan will only pass the Senate if Manchin and Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema come around to support it. It was interesting Senator Manchin used Biden’s moment in Glasgow to hold his own news conference in Washington, D.C., to say, well, he’s weighing whether to support the Build Back Better Act... Some have said... that Senator Manchin has to decide whether he wants to be a senator or a lobbyist or maybe a Republican."
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Democratic Party (United States) politiciansBusinesspeople from the United StatesMembers of the United States SenateAviators from the United StatesGovernors of West Virginia
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Amy Goodman in, “Manchin’s Latest Hissy Fit” Threatens to Curb Biden Agenda at U.N. Climate Summit, Democracy Now! (2 November 2021)
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