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President Biden urged Congress to pass a bill with a provision to address the "climate crisis," warning that he will not "back down" and will take executive action should the Senate fail to act.
West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin’s wholesale refusal to back the climate and tax measures in Democrats’ Build Back Better bill deals a final blow to any hopes of passing any provisions of the muni agenda before November.
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Democrats and climate activists were left outraged on Thursday when Joe Manchin refused to go forward with a climate agenda.
Manchin told Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Thursday that he will only support a new measure if it is limited to curbing pharmaceutical prices and extending federal subsidies for buying health care coverage. Manchin abruptly derailed his party’s bigger and wider-ranging social and environment package last December after months of negotiations and after the measure had already passed the House.