President Joe Biden is being criticized by a powerful fellow Democrat, West Virginia Sen_ Joe Manchin, for being 'cavalier” and “divorced from reality.”.
, a government agency, reports a yearly average of 39,518 employees at U.S. coal mines in 2021, compared with 91,611 in 2011, 51,795 in 2016 and 42,159 in 2020. Wyoming is the leader in coal production.
Such remarks, Manchin said,"are the reason the American people are losing trust in President Biden. … It seems his positions change daily depending on the audience and politics of the day.”to Biden winning passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, which included the biggest investment in climate programs in U.S. history, slammed Biden for “offensive and disgusting" words and said the president owed West Virginia coal workers “an immediate and public apology.
The White House said Biden was “commenting on a fact of economics and technology” at a time when the country is undertaking an “energy transition” that he is working to ensure means “more jobs and better opportunities. ... No one will be left behind.”
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