On Thursday, Senator Joe Manchin delivered a crippling blow to what was left of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, saying he wouldn’t support any new legislation to tackle green energy or reverse the Trump-G.O.P. tax cuts.
” In retrospect, a better headline might have been “Will Lucy Pull Away the Football from Chuck Again?” OfManchin did. In a meeting on Thursday with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, the senator from West Virginia delivered a crippling blow to what was left of Joe Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, saying he wouldn’t support any new legislation to tackle green energy or reverse the Trump-G.O.P. tax cuts.
Passing the two health-care-reform bills is the right thing to do. But Biden’s broader Build Back Better plan—which amounted to an ambitious effort to expand the social safety net and tackle glaring market failures, particularly regarding climate change—now seems as dead as Monty Python’s parrot. Manchin, in particular, has revelled in his role as tormentor of progressives and defender of fossil fuels. Time and again, he has suggested he might agree to a certain set of policies, only to derail their passage. Last year, he insisted on the elimination of a central element of Biden’s plan to slash carbon emissions: a set of financial incentives for power utilities to convert most of the nation’s electricity grid to clean energy over the next ten years.
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