{"id":1623308,"date":"2022-08-26T12:49:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623308"},"modified":"2022-08-26T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:50:02","slug":"democrats-manchin-split-over-climate-deal-that-led-to-passage-of-inflation-reduction-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-manchin-split-over-climate-deal-that-led-to-passage-of-inflation-reduction-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats, Manchin Split Over Climate Deal That Led to Passage of Inflation Reduction Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-manchin-split-over-climate-deal-that-led-to-passage-of-inflation-reduction-act%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1623308&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-democrats\">Democrats<\/a> are facing heightened inter-party disputes with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) over a backroom deal that helped win Manchin\u2019s support for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-inflation-reduction-act\">Inflation Reduction Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, Manchin agreed to lend his support to the bill\u2014crucial for the bill\u2019s eventual passage through the evenly divided Senate\u2014in exchange for consideration at a later date of separate legislation that would grant some concessions to fossil fuels and would cut down on regulations of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>The original deal with Manchin, negotiated between President Joe Biden,\u00a0Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), it was agreed that Democrats would\u00a0\u201cpass comprehensive permitting reform legislation before the end of this fiscal year,\u201d or Oct. 1.<\/p>\n<p>But with the Inflation Reduction Act passed, some Democrats are getting cold feet about honoring that deal, which they say would undercut the effects of the approximately $400 billion in climate spending contained in the larger reconciliation bill.<\/p>\n<p>At the first sign of this burgeoning schism, Manchin <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/manchin-warns-democrats-not-to-betray-him-on-climate-deal_4683227.html\">warned other Democrats against betraying him<\/a> on the deal, threatening a government shutdown if they did.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats, particularly in the House, have contended that they have no obligation to honor a backroom deal that they weren\u2019t consulted about.<\/p>\n<p>Some progressives have contended that the demands made by Manchin\u2014including cuts to regulations that\u00a0often can delay the construction of energy infrastructure projects for years and a\u00a0$6.6 billion appropriation to help restart the stalled West Virginia Mountain Valley pipeline\u2014threaten to undercut the climate goals of the $700 billion Inflation Reduction Act, which dedicates more than half of its new spending to climate policies.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats have said these policies will lead to a long-term cut in U.S. carbon emissions of around 40 percent over their 2005 levels, a cut still ten percent short of the 50 percent emissions reduction requested by Biden at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats are facing heightened inter-party disputes with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) over a backroom deal that helped win Manchin\u2019s support for the Inflation Reduction Act. Specifically, Manchin agreed to lend his support to the bill\u2014crucial for the bill\u2019s eventual passage through the evenly divided Senate\u2014in exchange for consideration at a later date of separate legislation [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1623308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1623308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1623308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1623308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1623308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1623308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}