With Joe Manchin, dirty energy gets a major return on its investment at the expense of needy families. onesarahjones writes on who the West Virginia senator is really serving
Photo: Samuel Corum/Getty Images On Sunday, Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia offered the American public a scapegoat in the shape of a state. He could not vote for the Build Back Better Act, he said, because of the people he represents. “If I can’t go home and explain it to the people of West Virginia, I can’t vote for it. And I cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation.
The Washington Post reported Monday that Manchin proposed his own deal to the Biden White House last week. Though that deal included funding for ten years of universal pre-K in addition to reduced spending on climate-change provisions important to Democrats, it excluded an extension of the enhanced child tax credit that is said to have lifted thousands out of poverty in his home state.
Maybe that doesn’t bother Manchin. The moderate allegedly told fellow senators “he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children,” HuffPost reported. If Americans got paid leave, Manchin said, “people would feign being sick and go on hunting trips,” another source told HuffPost. The report may be shocking, but it isn’t surprising.
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