As Jamelle Bouie writes in a New York Times Opinion column:
Seventy-two percent of likely voters, according to the left-leaning polling group Data for Progress, want the federal government to increase its tax incentives for solar, wind and other clean energy projects. Sixty-nine percent of likely voters want the government to take steps to make electric vehicles more affordable for more people. And 60 percent of likely voters support policies that would regulate carbon emissions and force power plants to clean up their act.
Joe Manchin has sunk the Biden administration plans to combat global warning and climate change.
But Joe Manchin is one man; he has one vote in the Senate. He wouldn’t matter at all except every single Republican is against these policies as well.
Manchin gives cover to the Republicans; he takes the spotlight off of them… he is a dangerous distraction.