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Sen. Manchin Says He Won’t Support Legislation to Tax the Rich and Combat Climate Crisis

HeadlineJul 15, 2022

On Capitol Hill, West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin told Democratic leaders Thursday he will not support legislation to combat the climate emergency — or any tax increases on the wealthy and large corporations. It’s the latest blow by Manchin against Joe Biden’s legislative agenda and could spell the death knell for a watered-down version of the Build Back Better package in the Senate, where Democrats hold a razor-thin majority. The youth-led climate justice group the Sunrise Movement called Manchin’s decision “nothing short of a death sentence,” and climate activist Bill McKibben tweeted in response, “Manchin has taken more money from the fossil fuel industry than anyone else in DC. And the return on that investment has been enormous. Big Oil got its money worth a thousand times over.”

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