{"id":1918662,"date":"2023-04-24T15:42:37","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T19:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-quietly-pressed-biden-administration-to-fund-group-led-by-campaign-treasurer\/"},"modified":"2023-04-24T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T19:43:16","slug":"manchin-quietly-pressed-biden-administration-to-fund-group-led-by-campaign-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-quietly-pressed-biden-administration-to-fund-group-led-by-campaign-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin quietly pressed Biden administration to fund group led by campaign treasurer"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fmanchin-quietly-pressed-biden-administration-to-fund-group-led-by-campaign-treasurer%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=1918662&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--><div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">S<\/span>enator <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-manchin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Joe Manchin<\/a> of West Virginia has been caught up in a controversy after urging the Biden administration to grant taxpayer dollars to a climate coalition that includes a group whose head is the campaign treasurer for the senator. Records show that Manchin signaled his support for the West Virginia-based Appalachian Climate Technology Now coalition to receive $100 million through President Joe Biden&#8217;s American Rescue Plan, a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill signed in March 2021. <\/p>\n<p>The head of an economic development group in the coalition called the Charleston Area Alliance, Jack Rossi, also happens to be the treasurer for Manchin&#8217;s Senate campaign, according to campaign finance disclosures. <\/p>\n<p>Despite this, Manchin&#8217;s letter made no mention of his ties to Rossi. The ACT Now coalition had previously brought forth an application to the Commerce Department to receive a portion of the $1 billion that the American Rescue Plan would hand out through its Build Back Better Regional Challenge. <\/p>\n<p>The ACT Now coalition said in its application that it would &#8220;develop and scale climate resilient industries&#8221; in central Appalachia and invest in green energy. In December 2021, the Biden administration announced that the coalition was one of 60 finalists among 529 applicants to receive the funding. <\/p>\n<p>Then, in September 2022, the ACT Now coalition became one of 21 finalists to receive the bulk handout \u2014 receiving roughly $62.8 million in grants &#8220;to spur job growth in 21 economically distressed and coal-impacted counties in southern West Virginia by creating a hub of clean energy and green economy jobs,&#8221; the department announced. <\/p>\n<p>Despite the controversy, Manchin praised the funding, saying, &#8220;It is a testament to our hardworking fellow West Virginians and forward-thinking communities that West Virginia was one of just 21 recipients of the EDA\u2019s Regional Challenge program. I\u2019m pleased the EDA is investing nearly $63 million in communities across southern West Virginia to strengthen local economies, support our energy industries and expand job opportunities.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The Commerce Department did not return a request for comment. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) quietly urged the Biden administration to grant taxpayer dollars to a climate coalition that includes a group whose head is the campaign treasurer for the West Virginia Democrat, records show. Manchin signaled support in an October 2021 letter to the Commerce Department&#8217;s assistant secretary for economic development, Alejandra Castillo, for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1918663,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4106,3620,4087,4338,7456,4426,6059,4634,6434],"class_list":["post-1918662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-administration","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-fund","tag-led","tag-manchin","tag-pressed","tag-quietly","tag-treasurer"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918662","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1918662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1918662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1918663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1918662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1918662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1918662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}