Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is becoming a bigger problem for President Biden and Democrats in the Senate as he faces an uphill reelection battle in West Virginia, a state where former President Trump won one of his biggest victories in 2020.
Manchin has criticized Biden and Democrats publicly, opposed various nominees and, this week, said he would oppose every one of the president’s nominations to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Before an election in which Biden is casting himself as a centrist and stable choice for the country, Manchin accused his EPA nominees of pursuing an “extreme ideology” and panned the administration’s plan to limit greenhouse pollution from existing power plants.
The shots from inside the party are exactly what Biden doesn’t want as he tries to unify Democrats ahead of the 2024 race — all at a time when polls show his support from the public is decidedly underwhelming.
“He is giving the administration fits, and I think … he probably feels like they have it coming,” said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW). “They threw him under the bus with the [Inflation Reduction Act] and permitting stuff, and it looks to me he’s demonstrating a pretty serious effort to point that out.”
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