{"id":1924552,"date":"2023-05-04T20:40:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-05T00:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-complains-biden-wont-develop-offshore-oil-he-voted-down-a-measure-forcing-the-admin-to-do-just-that\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T20:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-05-05T00:42:39","slug":"manchin-complains-biden-wont-develop-offshore-oil-he-voted-down-a-measure-forcing-the-admin-to-do-just-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-complains-biden-wont-develop-offshore-oil-he-voted-down-a-measure-forcing-the-admin-to-do-just-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchin criticizes Biden for not pursuing offshore oil, despite voting against a measure that would have required the administration to do so."},"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\">44<\/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-complains-biden-wont-develop-offshore-oil-he-voted-down-a-measure-forcing-the-admin-to-do-just-that%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=1924552&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--><h2>Biden Administration Under Fire for Failure to Develop Offshore Oil and Gas<\/h2>\n<h3>Senator Joe Manchin Criticizes Administration&#8217;s Lack of Action<\/h3>\n<p>West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin is criticizing the Biden administration for its failure to develop offshore oil and gas, despite voting against a measure that would have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/manchin-complains-biden-wont-develop-offshore-oil-he-voted-down-a-measure-forcing-the-admin-to-do-just-that\/\" title=\"Manchin criticizes Biden for not pursuing offshore oil, despite voting against a measure that would have required the administration to do so.\">mandated offshore lease sales<\/a>. During a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-he-wont-pull-tanden-nomination-as-key-dem-refuses-support-over-partisan-concerns\/\" title=\"Biden Says He Won\u2019t Pull Tanden Nomination As Key Dem Refuses Support Over \u2018Partisan\u2019 Concerns\">recent committee hearing<\/a>, Manchin attacked Interior Secretary Deb Haaland for disregarding &#8220;the resources that the good Lord has given us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Manchin&#8217;s criticism comes as he contemplates running for reelection in a state that former President Donald Trump carried easily in both 2016 and 2020.<\/li>\n<li>Manchin has worked to repair his image in West Virginia by bashing Biden&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosi-presents-bill-that-passed-senate-nearly-a-year-ago-as-top-agenda-item\/\" title=\"Pelosi Presents Bill That Passed Senate Nearly a Year Ago as Top Agenda Item\">signature spending bill<\/a>, the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes $1.2 trillion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-the-democrats-new-tax-bill-reverses-trumps-tax-cuts-an-interview-with-rep-kevin-brady\/\" title=\"How The Democrats\u2019 New Tax Bill Reverses Trump\u2019s Tax Cuts: An Interview With Rep. Kevin Brady\">green energy subsidies<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>However, Manchin&#8217;s role as the bill&#8217;s &#8220;chief architect&#8221; undermines his criticism.<\/li>\n<li>One Nation, a spending group aligned with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has already spent millions on ads dinging Manchin for his work on the Inflation Reduction Act.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Manchin&#8217;s History of Swearing Off Liberal Positions<\/h3>\n<p>Manchin has a history of swearing off his liberal positions as he faces a tough reelection bid. In 2017, he repeatedly said he opposed building a wall on the Mexican border, only to later call it a &#8220;flat-out lie&#8221; that he opposed the wall.<\/p>\n<p>Should he run for Senate, Manchin will immediately become a top target for Republicans as they work to gain a majority in the upper chamber. West Virginia voted for Trump by a whopping 42 and 39 points in 2016 and 2020, respectively, reflecting the difficulty of Manchin&#8217;s potential bid for a third term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden has &#8216;no intention&#8217; of holding offshore lease sales, Manchin says after opposing measure to mandate offshore lease sales Sen. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) \/ Getty Images With a difficult election year approaching, West Virginia&#8217;s Joe Manchin is blasting the Biden administration for its failure to develop offshore oil and gas. Just months ago, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1924553,"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":[544],"tags":[4106,3620,3763,4426,4663,16796,7393,17091,5195,16737,4351],"class_list":["post-1924552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-administration","tag-biden","tag-criticizes","tag-manchin","tag-measure","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-pursuing","tag-required","tag-so","tag-voting"],"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\/1924552","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1924552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1924552\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1924553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1924552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1924552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1924552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}