1. Manchin always insisted his primary issue with the reconciliation package was the overall cost. This allowed him to avoid talking about the actual substance of the bill. But it wasn’t true.
2. We now learn one of his red lines is the clean energy standard, a provision that isn’t very expensive ($150B), but would go a long way to transitioning the country away from fossil fuels
3. Manchin could probably have gotten just about anything for West Virginia coal workers, who will not be working very long in the coal industry regardless. But he apparently isn’t interested.
4. The only group that could not be made whole is the fossil fuel industry itself and people, like Manchin and his family, who profit from fossil fuel extraction
5. You can use a lot of words to describe this behavior but “moderate” is not a good choice. This is a radical decision to put very specific economic interests ahead of the health of the planet
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